Facebook and its associated apps, Instagram and WhatsApp, all went down on Monday night causing an outage that lasted around six hours.
Full service across all the apps and websites was restored around 11pm GMT but in the meantime, theories as to what had actually happened began to run wild, with many people buying into the seemingly baseless conspiracies.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more: