Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is senior adviser for public affairs at Interfaith Youth Core. The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of Religion News Service.

Celebrate Facebook’s Outage? Many Faith Communities Couldn’t Talk At All.

The response from at least some portion of Facebook's 3.5 billion users to its five-hour outage on Monday went something like this: “Good, I’m glad it’s down, may it stay down forever. But our faith communities rely on the platform to stay connected to each other.

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