“They don’t know how to contact the people in their lives without it,” she said.

So many people are reliant on Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram as primary modes of communication that losing access for so long can make them vulnerable to criminals taking advantage of the outage, said Rachel Tobac, a hacker and CEO of SocialProof Security. Without Facebook broadcasting its location on the public internet, apps and web addresses simple could not locate it.

Such data is part of the internet’s Domain Name System, a central component that directs its traffic. Madory said Facebook appears to have deleted basic data that tells the rest of the internet how to communicate with its properties. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.Īll Facebook services are currently down including the Oculus app, Oculus Store, and Oculus website.įacebook's domains currently return NXDOMAIN, the error for domains that do not exist. We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. (Note: Downdetector image above shows Pacific Coast times) Instagram logged some 21,000 reports of outages while about 14,000 reports of WhatsApp being down were tracked in Canada. The massive collapse comes the morning after Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed on 60 Minutes that Facebook’s own research shows that it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest to maximize profits over the public good.ĭowndetector, a website that monitors complaints about such outages, noted there were more than 35,000 Canadians complaining about a Facebook outage shortly after the sites went down. Niagara Falls basketball reporter hired by Miami Heat in NBA

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