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Facebook is likely scrambling private jets as we speak to get the right people to the right places.

Reminds me of that episode in Mr Robot

The cost of the downtime would be

Facebook 2021 revenue is around $100B. That’s $11M an hour. Since it’s peak hour for ad printing, one can assume double or triple this rate.

They are already looking at > $100M in ad loss, not counting reputation damage etc.

Think of all the influencers who can’t influence and FB addicts who can’t get their fix (+insta and whatsapp)