Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez put all the blame on what she called Facebook‘s “monopolistic behavior” for the impacts of Monday’s Facebook outage that affected WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger.

She specifically responded to a claim that Latin American communities were disproportionately affected by the Facebook outage on Monday, due to the high use of WhatsApp. 

“It’s almost as if Facebook’s monopolistic mission to either own, copy, or destroy any competing platform has incredibly destructive effects on free society and democracy,” the congresswoman said on Twitter, in response to Forbes editor José Caparroso.

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“Remember: WhatsApp wasn’t created by Facebook. It was an independent success. FB got scared & bought it,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.

During the outage, Caparroso tweeted: “Latin America lives on WhatsApp. I am surprised by so many people underestimating how catastrophic this downfall has been.”

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Meanwhile, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp was back online after hours of outage. Both Facebook and Instagram came back online a little earlier than WhatsApp but all three services have issued statements regarding their coming back online.

“Instagram is slowly but surely coming back now – thanks for dealing with us and sorry for the wait!,” Instagram said in a statement.

The company did not say what might be causing the outage, which began around 11:40 am ET, and fixes started to show more than six hours later. Websites and apps often suffer outages of varying size and duration, but hours-long global disruptions are rare.