The whistleblower, Frances Haugen, was a product manager working on civic integrity at Facebook until she left in May. The outage comes at a particularly strange time, after a Facebook whistleblower who recently released incriminating internal documents revealed her identity on 60 Minutes on Sunday. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.- Meta October 4, 2021

We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products.

Facebook posted just after noon on Twitter (the irony!), saying the company was aware of the issue and that they were “working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.” As of 4 p.m. While the cause of the outage is not yet clear, cybersecurity experts are saying that it’s a problem with the domain name system, which means absolutely nothing to me personally. ET, and have been down for a few hours in what’s turning out to be an unusually long outage. Uh-oh.įacebook and two of its properties, as well as its virtual-reality arm, Oculus, stopped working for users around the world on Monday around 12 p.m. Update 6:48PM ET: Added a note that WhatsApp is also coming back online.You’ve probably noticed that Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all down today, meaning that you must look reality dead in the eye for longer than usual.

Update 6:07PM ET: Added a note that Facebook and Instagram started coming back online. Update 4:39PM ET: Added comment from Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer. Update 3:04PM ET: Added context from Brian Krebs. Akamai eventually fixed the problem later that same day. Facebook alone is in control over its DNS records.'īack in July, Akamai Technologies, one of the largest content delivery networks in the world, went through a similar outage, leading to a large section of the internet, including platforms like the PlayStation Store, TikTok and LastPass, becoming inaccessible. 'It could well have been the result of an internal, system-wide change or update that went awry. Per journalist Brian Krebs, Facebook's DNS records were withdrawn from the global routing tables sometime this morning.'We don't know why this change was made,' Krebs wrote in a tweet. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.

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