The impact of the six-hour outage wasn’t lost on Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer.
People couldn’t message their family and friends and businesses couldn’t promote their products.
Facebook’s connectivity efforts could also benefit the social web connection.
The social internet’s response has been “inadequate,” according to The Journal.
Facebook’s efforts to expand internet access have also encountered setbacks throughout the years.
The company in 2018 quietly abandoned plans to buildsolar-powered dronesto beam internet to remote areas.
Facebook then opened up Free Basics to developers so they could add other websites to the app.
