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Facebook, Instagram finally end days of uptime by returning to some downtime

Doctor Syntax Silver badge

"We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused."

Not that I have any sympathy for inconvenience caused to advertisers* - the more the better in my view - but this is another victim-blaming pseudo apology. What they're really saying is more like "If you were better organised you'd have worked round it.". They are most carefully removing themselves from any shadow of blame.

A real but watered-down apology would have been "We apologise for causing inconvenience".

* Actually, it's not advertisers caught up in this. It's the advertising industry. Advertisers are the the advertising industry's customers.

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