Pan major of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, the two social networks and the two messengers of the Californian giant, suffered a massive outage, potentially affecting tens of millions of users worldwide, as the group goes through one of its worst PR crises.

  Facebook said late Monday night in a statement that the major outage of its networks and messaging had been caused by a "faulty configuration change" of its servers, which prevented its users from accessing the platform, Instagram, WhatsApp or Messenger for about seven hours. "People and businesses around the world depend on us to stay connected," the group noted, so far not very vocal about the exceptional incident. "We apologize to those who have been affected," Facebook added, potentially several billion people according to various cybersecurity experts.

Vatican: resumption of the trial of a cardinal accused of embezzlement

The trial for various financial crimes of Cardinal Becciu and his co-defendants, which began in late July, resumes Tuesday at the Vatican, where for the first time such a high-ranking religious is on trial. As soon as it opened on 27 July, the trial was postponed until October, as the court granted the defence's request for extra time to prepare. At the center of this extraordinary trial before the court of the smallest state in the world is Angelo Becciu, dismissed from office and deprived of his privileges as a cardinal by the supreme pontiff in September 2020. At the heart of the procedure: the expensive purchase of a prestigious building in London as part of the investment activities of the Holy See, whose real estate assets are considerable. Two years of investigation into the role of Angelo Becciu but also other senior officials of the Vatican administration, offshore companies and intermediaries have led to the indictment of ten protagonists who must answer for fraud, embezzlement, abuse of power, money laundering, corruption, extortion...

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