{"id":846288,"date":"2021-10-04T18:28:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T22:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=846288"},"modified":"2021-10-04T18:29:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T22:29:01","slug":"facebook-instagram-suffer-widespread-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-instagram-suffer-widespread-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Instagram Suffer Widespread Outage"},"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\">10<\/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-instagram-suffer-widespread-outage%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=846288&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 readability=\"28.16\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Crash comes as the social media giant faces criticism for effect on teens<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1154955575_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1154955575_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1154955575_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1154955575_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/santi-ruiz\/\" title=\"Posts by Santi Ruiz\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Santi Ruiz<\/a> \u2022 October 4, 2021 6:25 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"78.999199359488\">\n<p>Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp simultaneously crashed Monday afternoon, the latest setback the social media giant has faced in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The company claims the crash, which occurred around noon, is the result of a server issue. But Facebook has not publicly said what caused the outage. Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said the company is &#8220;working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.&#8221; The outage is so widespread that Facebook employees could not <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sheeraf\/status\/1445099150316503057?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enter buildings<\/a>, as their building passes are connected to a Facebook-run system.<\/p>\n<p>The crash comes at an inopportune time for Facebook. Last month, senators grilled Facebook executives following a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/senators-slam-facebook-for-adverse-effect-on-teens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> that the company suppressed evidence that its products harm children. On Sunday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/facebook-whistleblower-reveals-identity-ahead-senate-hearing-2021-10-03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whistleblower<\/a> who provided the <em>Journal <\/em>with internal documents told <em>60 Minutes <\/em>that these revelations prove Facebook prioritizes profit over user safety.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ken Buck (R., Colo.), who has proposed bills that would break up Facebook into smaller entities, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> the outage &#8220;just goes to show why consumer options and healthy competition are critical to free market success.&#8221; Buck also said it was &#8220;convenient&#8221; that Facebook went down during one of &#8220;the biggest negative press days for Facebook in recent memory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The crash apparently resulted from a feature of the internet&#8217;s routing system called Border Gateway Protocol. Cybersecurity researchers are unsure whether malicious actors caused the outage, although most Border Gateway Protocol issues are <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GossiTheDog\/status\/1445070928887566351?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-inflicted<\/a>. But researcher Omer Shapira <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/omershapira\/status\/1445100925111111680?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pointed out<\/a> that China has used Border Gateway Protocol attacks in the past to <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.usf.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&amp;context=mca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">route<\/a> selective information through Chinese servers.<\/p>\n<p>The crash appears to have affected a number of Facebook-supported applications, including its popular corporate tool Facebook Workplace. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SGgrc\/status\/1445116435731296256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one<\/a> employee, the crash locked out Facebook staff from accessing servers remotely. Staffers physically present at the servers do not have authorization on those servers.<\/p>\n<p>Some observers suggest the outage proves Facebook is too large an entity and should be broken up. Big tech critic Mike Davis called Facebook &#8220;perhaps the biggest single point of failure on the internet today&#8221; and said &#8220;we should not be this reliant on any one company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to web traffic tracker <a href=\"https:\/\/netblocks.org\/cost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netblocks<\/a>, the outage has already cost Facebook at least two-thirds of a billion dollars.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Crash comes as the social media giant faces criticism for effect on teens  Santi Ruiz \u2022 October 4, 2021 6:25 pm Facebook, Instagram, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1893848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}