Facebook Fail: Massive Outage Hits All of Mark Zuckerberg’s Platforms Including Instagram, WhatsApp

Facebook’s entire network is down as well as social media applications owned by the company including Instagram and WhatsApp.

Ironically, Facebook had to resort to Twitter in order to notify users of issues with their products. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” Facebook tweeted. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

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Instagram’s communications account also notified users that the company was having issues via Twitter. “Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them.” Instagram Comms tweeted. “Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown.” The message was retweeted from Instagram’s primary account.

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“We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment,” WhatsApp tweeted. “We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!”

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The far-reaching Facebook failure comes on the heels of the Wall Street Journal’s public identification of a Facebook whistleblower who played a critical role in the Journal’s “Facebook Files” series.

The Journal identified the whistleblower as Frances Haugen, a project manager for the company who was hired to help combat election interference. Haugen provided the Journal with internal documents from Facebook that were essential to the outlet’s series.

Breitbart News will continue to report on this developing story.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/10/0...agram-whatsapp/

Don't know if it's for sale, but it's definitely down. Per liberty daily the DNS records have been nuked.

Facebook.com Is for Sale as Worldwide Outage, Whistleblower, and Massive User Data Breach Collide in Perfect Storm
By J.D. Rucker • Oct. 4, 2021

Facebook is down, and not in a minor way. The Big Tech mammoth is down worldwide in a way in which they will not be able to easily recover as the DNS A and AAA records have been deleted. Technically speaking, facebook.com is now for sale.

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They’re not alone. Instagram, WhatsApp, and others have also been affected in the same way. It’s clearly a coordinated attack on a massive scale, though it’s unclear how it was pulled off. We’re not talking about a simple DDoS attack. This is catastrophic and would have required high-level access to certain protocols that one cannot get from the outside.

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Zero Hedge reported that the timing is conspicuous:

Downdector reports that Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Facebook Messenger are experiencing issues and /or outages worldwide. The outage comes just before a Facebook whistleblower is set to testify before Congress on Tuesday.

Users began to report issues with the social media platform around 1120 ET.

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https://thelibertydaily.com/facebook-com...-perfect-storm/

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down Worldwide After DNS Records Vanish; Employees Badges Reportedly Not Working
MONDAY, OCT 04, 2021 - 12:12 PM
Update (1507ET): Facebook appears to have more than DNS issues, as NYT's Sheera Frenkel reports:

"Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren't working to access doors."

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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/facebo...-global-outages

I wonder are back-ups? Aren't there any plans for such an event? What's really going on?

Is it Trump's or Covid 's fault?

I just found it was an inside 'mistake' - no doubt a 'woke' employee in the throes of TDS.

Cybersecurity Expert Brian Krebs Explains What Is Known About Catastrophic Facebook Outage
ALANA MASTRANGEL
O4 Oct 2021

Cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs says Facebook, as well as its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, are all suffering from ongoing global outages due to someone from inside Facebook updating the company’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) records, which took away the map telling the world’s computers how to find its online properties. According to a New York Times reporter, employees cannot even open doors with their security cards due to the catastrophic outage.

While it remains unclear why this happened, Krebs says how it happened is clear: On Monday morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to rescind key digital records that tell computers and other devices how to find the destinations online.

Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at the network monitoring company Kentik, said someone at Facebook caused an update to be made to the company’s BGP records, which resulted in the company’s system taking away the map telling the world’s computers how to find its various online properties.

Now, when someone types Facebook.com into a web browser, the browser has no idea where to find the website, and therefore displays an error page.

In addition to preventing its billions of users from utilizing the social media platform, the Facebook outage has also prohibited the company’s employees from communicating with each another using their internal tools, as Facebook’s email and tools are all managed in house, via the same domains that are now offline.

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Moreover, company employees are also stranded outside of the building, according to New York Times reporter Sheera Frenkel, who said employees’ badges, which allow them access to their offices, are not working.

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The mass Facebook outage comes shortly after CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an interview with Frances Haugen, a Facebook whistleblower who recently provided many of the documents that made up the publication’s Facebook Files series.

Breitbart News has reported extensively on the “Facebook Files” series from the Wall Street Journal which made a number of damning claims about the tech giant based on a series of internal company documents.

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