Facebook outage costs Mark Zuckerberg USD 6 bn, position drop in billionaire list: Report

Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth took at least USD 6 billion fall amid a whistleblower’s explosive claims against the site and massive outages that disrupted services on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp for several hours on Monday.

According to a Bloomberg report, a selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting around 5 per cent on Monday, adding to a drop of about 15 per cent since mid-September.