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A day not to 'like' for Facebook, hit by outage, criminal probe

The Facebook outage continued for hours, affecting users in North America, Europe and other regions

Facebook grappled with challenges on two fronts Wednesday, an hours-long outage and intensified scrutiny from investigators reportedly probing data deals struck by the world's largest social network.

As the outage continued, gripes flooded rival Twitter as well as a comments section on downdetector.com, which tracks trouble accessing online pages.

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