Instagram and Facebook are currently not working, as are democracy, society and a healthy sense of self. Even Netflix couldn’t resist tweeting a Squid Game meme about the situation. The outages prompted a flood of messages on Twitter, where it quickly became the No.

Tens of thousands reported problems to DownDetector.

It was not immediately clear how many of the company’s 2 billion-plus active daily users are affected by the outage. He is scheduled to appear with other executives in the coming weeks on the company’s third-quarter earnings call. Around the same time the 60 Minutes segment aired, he posted a photo taken on his boat with internet-enabled glasses. She said she felt obligated to surface internal documents because the company made a number of decisions that went against the company’s own research findings.ĬEO Mark Zuckerberg has not responded to the situation. They relied on documents leaked by former product manager Frances Haugen, who went public on 60 Minutes. The company said it is “aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app” and is working on restoring access.Ī series of investigative articles by the Wall Street Journal in recent weeks have painted a negative picture of Facebook, which is already among the tech giants being scrutinized by government regulators. Several initial press reports indicated the issue seemed to been related to Domain Name System, or DNS, server issues. and several other countries, according to DownDetector and other monitors.

In an interestingly timed follow-up to Sunday’s damning 60 Minutes report featuring a Facebook whistleblower, the social media giant’s apps are all experiencing outages today.įacebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger are all affected in the U.S. “We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.” “*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now,” he wrote.

Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer at Facebook, had tweeted earlier this afternoon that efforts were still under way to get everything working again. Facebook Whistleblower Reveals Herself In '60 Minutes' Interview, Says Company Is 'Paying For Its Profits With Our Safety'Īccording to DownDetector, the number of reported issues with the three platforms declined markedly between 5 p.m.

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