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Re:When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites ... by dylan604 on Friday October 08, 2021 @12:20AM (#28795712)
The non-tech public wouldn't know where to go to look, so the newsies seems logical.
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Re:When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites ... by lugged on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:01AM (#28795908)
Its "why is Facebook down" questions and looking it up on newssites.
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Re:When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites ... by Griffinsauce on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:54AM (#28796446)
That is an assumption.

It could also just be looking for their content fix.

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Re:When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites ... by GuySake on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:05AM (#28796822)
Well ... maybe that's a small proof. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=facebook,facebook...
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Re:When Facebook went down this week, traffic to news sites ... by alex_young on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:09AM (#28796214)
Seems like a plausible idea. I can think of some others. Why is this one more likely?
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