The test will run in the United States and will go on for a
few months, Instagram said in a blog post.
On October 4, a six-hour long outage prevented the company's
3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services,
including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
Earlier on Monday, many users faced problems with Instagram,
according to user reports on Web monitoring group Downdetector.
The company is also planning to roll out a feature that will
help making it easier for people to know whether their account is at risk of
being disabled.
The social media giant, which has been the centre of
memes and jokes on Twitter following the outages, is also grappling
with former employee turned whistleblower Frances Haugen’s accusation
that the company repeatedly prioritised profit over clamping down on
hate speech and misinformation.
Haugen, who provided the documents that underpinned a Wall
Street Journal investigation and a Senate hearing on Instagram's harm to teen
girls, has agreed to meet with Facebook's oversight board in the coming weeks
to brief them about what she learned while working at the company. © Reuters