David Black on Facebook outage

Topics

Faculty Royal Roads in the media

Featured

Bachelor of Arts in Professional Communication Communication & Culture

Share online

David Black poses with a neutral expression, wearing a blazer with a forested scene in the background.

David Black on Facebook outage

Communications expert Assoc. Prof. David Black was interviewed by CHEK News on the recent Facebook outage. Black says we should not underestimate the negative impacts the outage has had on us.

Here is some of what he had to say:

"... It's about two billion people are on Facebook every day and about three billion in any given month. So when something as important to that larger portion of humanity is removed, obviously it's going to be a little bit of a shock."

Watch the full story starting at 18:30.