Everybody loves a good 'crash & burn' now and then...
As of 6:00PM, Facebook is still down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR
Just as Facebook’s Antigone Davis was live on CNBC defending the company over a whistleblower’s accusations and its handling of research data suggesting Instagram is harmful to teens, its entire network of services suddenly went offline.
The outage started just before noon ET, and nearly four hours later, there’s no sign of restoration. No one from the company has offered an explanation of the issues or estimates for when the problem will be fixed. This is the worst outage for Facebook since a 2019 incident took its site offline for more than 24 hours, as the downtime hit hardest on the small businesses and creators who rely on these services for their income.
There are signs Facebook may be close to restoring services, and finally getting updates for its DNS registration. After failing all tests for most of the day, a test of ISP DNS servers via DNSchecker.org shows most of them successfully finding a route to Facebook.com.
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