Facebook outage shows why big tech firms should be broken up – EU commissioner

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg apologised for the “disruption” caused by the outage

Facebook apologised for the disruption (PA)

The Facebook outage which left billions of people unable to access the social network, Instagram or WhatsApp shows large tech firms should be broken up, the EU’s competition commissioner has said as the fallout from the incident continues.

Facebook was offline for more than five hours on Monday evening, taking the other services it owns – Instagram and WhatsApp with it – leaving billions of users without their regular means of communication.