"The daily growth rate of Telegram exceeded the norm by an order of magnitude, and we welcomed over 70 million refugees from other platforms in one day," Telegram founder Pavel Durov wrote on the platform after the Facebook outage.
"The argument that we deliberately push content that makes people angry for profit is deeply illogical," Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a note to Facebook employees that he then posted on his account.
A day after a faulty configuration change knocked Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram offline for almost six hours, a former employee turned whistleblower testified before a US senate committee, accusing the company of making "destructive choices".
Edtech startup Sunstone Eduversity will use the funding to invest in learning and technology assets, build a network of colleges across multiple cities, and hire across different functions.
Data centre companies - which consume a significant amount of power - have also made commitments to utilise renewable energy - some going up to 100% - for their operations.
The law bans online games that are 'games of chance' in nature.
People in many places discovered that Facebook and its apps had burrowed their way into nearly every facet of existence.
