The outage of Facebook and Instagram, two social media platforms owned by Meta, left users searching for answers, which sparked panic among users.
According to Google Trends data, worldwide searches for the term "Facebook" skyrocketed at 6:19 PM on Tuesday.
Google Trends' map, which was reviewed by the Yemeni Fact-Checking Network, shows how searches for the world's most popular social network spiked in the first minutes of the problem, which alarmed users who feared their accounts had been hacked because the site asked them to log in and rejected their usual passwords.
7:30 screenshot displays the search for Facebook (Google Trends).
Google Trends' map shows how the problem became a global search term, with Mongolia being the first country to search for Facebook, followed by Burma in second place and Nepal in third:
7:30 screenshot reveals the countries most searching for Facebook (Google Trends).
Among Arab countries, Tunisia ranked sixth in the world in searches for the reasons behind the website's outage.
7:30 screenshot reveals the countries most searching for Facebook (Google Trends).
As for Yemen, the data shows that searches spiked at 6:31 PM
7:30 screenshot shows Yemen among the top countries searching for Facebook (Google Trends)
