


"We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible." "*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now," Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's CTO, tweeted - because there was no other way to communicate.

And users who couldn't get on Facebook flocked elsewhere Twitter and Signal both reported huge spikes in usage on Monday. They turned instead to Discord, Zoom and other platforms to keep in touch. Which of course made things worse: Employees reportedly couldn't get into buildings to fix the problem, or communicate in order to do so.
