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Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours.

The company apologized and said it is working to understand more about the cause, which began around a. Eastern Monday. Facebook has tried to play down their impact. The stricken content-delivery company in that case, Fastly, blamed a software bug triggered by a customer who changed a setting. Privacy is a growing concern in today's world. Follow along with all our coverage related to privacy, security, and more in our guide.

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It appeared, at least from the outside, that Facebook had done that to itself; the company maintains its own DNS, unlike other smaller companies, and the changes were made from inside the company. At some point during Tuesday, the relevant directions to web browsers appeared to have been removed — though, at the time of publication, Facebook was yet to explain how or why. The fact that Facebook is so extensively run on its own systems also meant that it, too, was affected by the outage, with internal communications tools going offline.

It also reportedly kept engineers from being able to fix the problems remotely, since they were unable to access the system to do so — meaning that the company was forced to send engineers to physically deal with the servers in person. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies.

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