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More than social media: The WhatsApp outage affected small businesses worldwide

NPR | By Audie Cornish,
Amy Isackson, Alejandra Marquez Janse
Published October 6, 2021 at 3:02 PM MDT

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Ayman El Tarabishy, professor at George Washington University, about how Facebook's outage earlier this week halted work for businesses who rely on WhatsApp worldwide.

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