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By The Verge
October 5, 2021
![[article image]](https://cacm.acm.org/system/assets/0004/1204/1005_Verge_WhatsApp-Outage.large.jpg?1633458284&1633458284 "Illustration shows a rendering of the What'sApp messaging platform logo, multiple versions to show the breadth of users it has.")
In the chaos of Monday's Facebook outage, it's easy to lose sight of the company's reach. Not being able to post a new photo to Instagram is an annoyance, but it's not necessarily catastrophic.
Yet for WhatsApp users, especially outside of the U.S., losing Facebook's encrypted messaging service is a life-halting change.
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