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Facebook, WhatsApp and Instgram were all off-line this morning. According to the New York Times "it was unlikely that a cyber-attack caused the issues. That’s because the technology behind the apps was still different enough that one hack was not likely to affect all of them at once."  That suggests that all three platforms were taken down deliberately by someone inside Facebook, perhaps even by the company itself. Why might they do that? Perhaps its intent is to rile up its users to by showing how much people rely on these platforms in the hope that their dismay at begin deprived of Facebook's services can be channeled into preventing Congress (or the DoJ) from legislating or ruling to curtail the company's out-sized influence.