Facebook and WhatsApp outage: Downtime and whistleblower testimony renew focus on dangers of Facebook’s global reach

As Monday’s outage showed, much of the world has become reliant on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Many millions have found these services to be a great help. A zombie Facebook that is dead in America but still lingers abroad would be no better for these users. What would be better is a Facebook able to stand up to the spotlight — both at home and abroad.