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He says that Facebook has a private worldwide fiberoptic backbone. Everyone else's internet could go down but Facebook will still work.

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That sounds almost plausible until you realize that, if Citizen Jim and Jane's internet doesn't work, they aren't going to be logging into farcebook.

Exactly. Why does Facebook need a worldwide private internet backbone? It's not there for Jim and Jane's benefit.

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they blame "routine maintence" https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/10/facebook-blames-global-outage-on-error-during-routine-maintenance.html umm then why did Trumps account become unbanned? they restored something from a while ago ...

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It was unbanned (or more likely restored from backups as you surmised) when they were recovering from breaking their BGP advertisements.

Pure dumbassery to change BGP advertisements from off-site due to the risk of not being able to get back in when a change goes south.