Fact Check: No kidding! Netizens blame 13-year-old Chinese hacker for global Facebook outage


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October 6, 2021 UPDATED: October 6, 2021 22:38 IST Neither Reuters nor any other credible media outlet has blamed a 13-year-old Chinese hacker for the outage. Popular social networking platforms Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram faced a global outage for around six hours on October 4 that saw Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth plunge by $6 billion. And now, if some social media users are to be believed, a 13-year-old Chinese hacker named Sun Jisu was behind the outage. The information has been attributed to global news agency Reuters. The archived versions of the posts can be seen here and here ....