Have we reached peak Facebook-bashing yet? It would be risky to call the top for that exercise, although it may be hard to surpass this week’s one-two punch of the global outage with the public appearances of whistleblower Frances Haugen. The result is commentary notable for its rapidly diminishing quota of common sense.
Take, for example, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s hyperbolic tweet on Monday night, alluding to the travails that the outage caused WhatsApp users in Latin America. The messaging app, she asserted, would have been “fine right now” if Facebook hadn’t “got scared & bought it.” Does anyone seriously think the only tech company with a global infrastructure that has ever experienced an outage is Facebook? Let’s check in with both Amazon and Microsoft on that front. Given that WhatsApp had little revenue when it was acquired, chances are Facebook has been able to invest more in the app’s infrastructure and ensure it goes down less than it would have if it had remained independent.
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