Fb has slowed down the rollout of recent merchandise in current days, the Wall Avenue Journal reported on Wednesday, citing individuals aware of the matter.
Executives on the social media firm have additionally put a maintain on some work on current merchandise, the report stated.
Fb didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
Final week, Fb stated it was placing a maintain on the children’ model of its photo-sharing app Instagram, amid rising opposition from US lawmakers and advocacy teams citing security issues.
Fb has come underneath fireplace in current weeks after Frances Haugen, who labored as a product supervisor on the civic misinformation workforce at Fb, revealed that she was the whistleblower who supplied paperwork underpinning a current Wall Avenue Journal investigation.
Including to the troubles, it additionally skilled a six-hour outage on Monday as a consequence of a “defective configuration change”, stopping its 3.5 billion customers from accessing its social media and messaging providers reminiscent of WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
Fb shares, that are mildly down in afternoon buying and selling, have misplaced about 3 % this week.
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