QAnon followers said the outage could have been part of a predicted 10-day nationwide blackout.
In a statement, Facebook blamed the outage on issues with its systems and insisted no user data had been compromised.
John Sabal, known on Telegram as QAnon John, questioned whether the outage could be the so-called"Blackout." To support his claim, QAnon John referred to a post shared on messageboard website 4Chan on Monday—written by someone who claimed to work for"a major global internet entity who claimed a global internet outage would hit social media networks and then the rest of the internet and last 15 minutes.found the post had been shared a few minutes after the outage happened. This was also picked up by several users on the racist-slur-ridden messageboard.
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