Both legislators put pressure on Facebook this week after a former whistleblower accused Sunday company of repeatedly making a profit rather than holding hate speech and false information.
During the recent expiration, some users were unable to upload their Instagram feeds, while others were unable to send messages to Facebook Messenger.
Facebook Inc. apologized to users for the two-hour interruption of their services on Friday and blamed another unfortunate change to fix its second shutdown in the world this week.
The company has confirmed that social media platforms, Instagram, Messenger and Workplace have been affected by the recent cut-off.
"We sincerely apologize to anyone who was unable to find our products in the last few hours," the company said. "We have resolved the matter, and everything must be back to normal now."
During the recent expiration, some users were unable to upload their Instagram feeds, while others were unable to send messages to Facebook Messenger.
Soon people went on Twitter to share memes and jokes about the second service disruption this week. "Looks like Facebook has gone on a three-day work week. Closing Monday and Friday?" said a Twitter user.
It looks like Facebook has gone into a three-day work week. Monday and Friday closures?
On Monday, the social media giant blamed the "non-violent change" for a six-hour break that barred the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing social media and messages such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.
Monday's end was the largest Down detector web monitoring team ever saw and blocked access to billions of users' apps, leading to an increase in the use of anti-media and messaging apps.
Moscow correspondents said Monday's departure showed that Russia was ready to make its own network of communications, with EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager highlighting the results of relying on just a few players, underscoring the need for ore rivals.
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