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The longest six hours in Facebook’s history took place on October 4, 2021, as Facebook and its sister properties went dark. The social network suffered a catastrophic outage. The only silver lining to the outage, if there is one, is that the outage wasn’t caused by malicious actors. Rather, it was a self-inflicted wound caused by Facebook’s own network engineering team.