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Facebook and the shape of the internet

James Hennessy
Oct 5, 2021
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It’s perhaps appropriate that the latest, weeks-long news cycle about Facebook being evil has culminated in the entire platform collapsing. Despite a litany of conspiracy theories about what happened, it seems the cause is far more anodyne: a busted DNS configuration.

From Ars Technica:

Not long after that, Reddit user u/ramenporn reported on the r/sysad…

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