The White House has stated that social media has proven that it has power that it cannot control.
According to Arabiya Net, the White House believes that social media sites are in great need of reforms and to be controlled more strongly than internal laws.
Facebook users around the world have reported that they are unable to access its suite of social media applications, including the main network, photo-sharing app Instagram, and messaging service WhatsApp. .
The disruption that occurred on Monday included the company's services worldwide, in addition to Amazon and Google sites.
More than 125,000 Facebook users reported problems accessing the app at 11:54 a.m. in New York, according to the Downtracker website. Less than 98,000 people reported problems with Instagram, and about 35,000 people said WhatsApp had problems.
The Facebook app network has an average of more than 2.7 billion daily users.
Downtracker indicated that the services of the three social networks (all owned by Facebook) were out of service in densely populated areas including Washington, Paris and Dubai.
The New York Times reported that Facebook ruled out a cyber attack as the reason for discontinuing its services with WhatsApp and Instagram.
