Facebook says 'no malicious activity behind' service outage

The Facebook logo is displayed on a mobile phone in this picture illustration taken December 2, 2019. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Illustration/File Photo/File Photo
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday "there was no malicious activity behind" a faulty configuration change that knocked all of its services off the internet for hours a day earlier.
The company earlier had not made clear whether the configuration change had been planned or whether someone deliberately interfered with its servers.