Why all the social media crashes?
It was a pretty bad week for social media sites across the board. Nearly every big-name social media platform experienced an outage over the past five days (well, except for one, which we’ll get to in a bit).Perhaps worse than the downtime, though, were the conspiracy theories speculating that these outages were connected to major events in American politics. First, you had Super Tuesday, the largest grouping of presidential primary elections in the United States in a single day, which is when Meta-owned sites Facebook,…