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Facebook Outages:  What Happened, Why it Happened, and Why it Matters. 

October 12, 2021 | 12:15pm ET | 16:15 UTC
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Professors Carroll and DeNardis will discuss what is currently known about the causes of the Facebook outages. The discussion will explain how Facebook and other Internet platforms rely on a technological architecture that has enabled the rapid growth of the Internet but that also has a number of security risks and other pitfalls that Internet users should understand. The discussion will also touch on whether this episode reveals a need for greater regulation at the technical level of how Internet platforms operate, leaving for another day discussion of regulating the content on these platforms.

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