Facebook has slowed down the rollout of latest merchandise in latest days, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing folks acquainted with the matter.

Executives on the social media firm have additionally put a maintain on some work on present merchandise, the report said.

Facebook didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.

Last week, Facebook mentioned it was placing a maintain on the children’ model of its photo-sharing app Instagram, amid rising opposition from US lawmakers and advocacy teams citing security considerations.

Facebook has come underneath fireplace in latest weeks after Frances Haugen, who labored as a product supervisor on the civic misinformation staff at Facebook, revealed that she was the whistleblower who supplied paperwork underpinning a latest Wall Street Journal investigation.

Adding to the troubles, it additionally skilled a six-hour outage on Monday on account of a “faulty configuration change”, stopping its 3.5 billion customers from accessing its social media and messaging companies equivalent to WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.

Facebook shares, that are mildly down in afternoon buying and selling, have misplaced about 3 p.c this week.

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