It's a costly breakdown.
The fortune of the wealthy Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, has melted by more than 6 billion dollars in a few hours after a fall of the title on the stock market, which made the expenses of criticisms on its policy doubled of a mega-failure this Monday.
Heavyweight of the Nasdaq, Facebook plunged 4.89% to 326.23 dollars, cumulating the setbacks between the accusations of a whistleblower on the group's policy and a major outage affecting access to its networks and messaging millions of its users.
Since its peaks in early September, the stock has lost 15%.
Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth has fallen by nearly $ 7 billion in a few hours https://t.co/Qw1BMwVZTQ
- Bloomberg (@business) October 4, 2021
A whistleblower in front of Congress this Tuesday
The social network is first the target of accusations from a whistleblower who will testify before Congress on Tuesday to say that Facebook chooses "profit rather than safety".
Internal research for the group has shown that its social network Instagram has negative effects on the morale of teenage girls.
To this was added on Monday a mega-blackout preventing access to the group's four networks and messengers - Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Messenger - usually frequented every month by some 3.5 billion people around the world.
Because of his stock fall, group boss Mark Zuckerberg, 37, lost more than $ 6 billion in a matter of hours, dropping his fortune to $ 121.6 billion, a Bloomberg tally says.
Its losses have reached 15 billion since mid-September.
Facebook is one of the largest capitalizations on Wall Street, generally ranking behind Apple, Microsoft, Google (Alphabet) and Amazon.
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