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The outage lasted for approximately , affecting billions of users worldwide. Beyond personal social networking, the disruption impacted:

The following text details the causes and impact of the major service disruptions experienced by Meta (formerly Facebook). The "Map of the Internet" Failure 2022---Facebook--That-s-why-the-services-went-down

: The outage also knocked out Meta's internal communication tools and systems. This made it significantly harder for engineers to diagnose and fix the problem, as they couldn't access standard office software or even use their digital keycards to enter physical buildings. The outage lasted for approximately , affecting billions

The primary reason for the massive global outage was a on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between data centers. This error caused a "cascading effect" that brought all services—including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp—to a halt. This made it significantly harder for engineers to