{"id":845390,"date":"2021-10-04T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-down-html\/"},"modified":"2021-10-04T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:32:11","slug":"facebook-down-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-down-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebook-down-html%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=845390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"css-13pd83m\">\n<div id=\"top-wrapper\" class=\"css-z1t82k\">\n<div id=\"top-slug\" class=\"css-l9onyx\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad top-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-avv6cj\">\n<div class=\"css-gvri2r\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-rq4mmj\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2021\/10\/04\/business\/04facebook-outage\/merlin_195779238_71d259d2-05b5-412d-a316-56c900757b43-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\">\n<div class=\"css-z3e15g\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 ehw59r15\">\n<p><span class=\"css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span>Josh Edelson\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down at the same time on Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">The social network and its apps began displaying error messages before noon Eastern time, users reported. All of the company\u2019s family of apps \u2014 Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger \u2014 showed outage reports, according to the site <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/downdetector.com\/\">downdetector.com<\/a>, which monitors web traffic and site activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Outages are not uncommon for apps, but to have so many interconnected apps at the world\u2019s largest social media company go down at the same time is rare. The company has been trying to <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/25\/technology\/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-messenger.html\">integrate the underlying technical infrastructure<\/a> of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram for several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Two Facebook security team members, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said it was unlikely that a cyberattack caused the issues. That\u2019s because the technology behind the apps was still different enough that one hack was not likely to affect all of them at once.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">In a series of tweets, John Graham-Cumming, the chief technology officer of Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, said the problem was likely with Facebook\u2019s servers, which were not letting people connect to its sites like Instagram and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Computers convert websites such as <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/\">facebook.com<\/a> to numeric internal protocol addresses, through a system that is likened to a phone\u2019s address book, Mr. Graham-Cumming said. Facebook\u2019s issue was the equivalent of removing people\u2019s phone numbers from under their names in their address book, making it impossible to call them, he said. Cloudflare provides some of the systems that support Facebook\u2019s internet infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesman, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andymstone\/status\/1445058088436908045\">posted on Twitter<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We\u2019re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">On Twitter, the hashtag #facebookdown quickly started trending. Some users said they were miffed by the abrupt outage, while others poked fun at it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-cfo9c3\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"css-cfo9c3\">\n<div class=\"css-cfo9c3\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Facebook\u2019s internal communications platform, Workplace, was also taken out, leaving most employees unable to do their jobs. Two Facebook workers called it the equivalent of a \u201csnow day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Facebook has already been dealing with plenty of scrutiny. The company has been under fire from a whistle-blower, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/03\/technology\/whistle-blower-facebook-frances-haugen.html\">Frances Haugen<\/a>, a former Facebook product manager who amassed thousands of pages of internal research and has since distributed them to the news media, lawmakers and regulators. The documents revealed that Facebook knew of many harms that its services were causing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Ms. Haugen, who revealed her identity on Sunday online and on \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d is scheduled to testify on Tuesday in Congress about Facebook\u2019s impact on young users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">Ryan Mac contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-pncxxs etfikam0\">This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit&#8230;Josh Edelson\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Facebook and some of its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to go down at the same time on Monday for many users, who turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to lament the outage. 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