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The outages that affected both Spotify and Discord started late on Tuesday and were fixed by Google Cloud teams after a couple of hours.

Reports surfaced last month that in a bid to enter the competitive social media market, Microsoft may acquire popular chat and communications platform Discord for more than $10 billion.

"We are humbled and honoured by the growth we've seen among so many incredible and diverse communities that have made Discord their place to hang out," Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron said in a statement.

Trudeau, who has an often stormy relationship with Trump, generally refrains from commenting on political happenings in Canada's powerful neighbor.