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Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for nearly six-hour outage

 Facebook Inc (FB.O) has blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.

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