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At the peak of the outage. tens of thousands of users of the social media apps reported problems to Downdetector, with almost 90,000 reports of issues with Facebook as of 1:30 p.m. Eastern.
The number of outages is currently falling. The peak was 581,224 outages reported at 10:26 a.m. ET. Reports indicate 76% citing login errors, 16% app issues and 8% website problems.
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads are back up after users reported experiencing problems with the social media and messaging platforms Tuesday, according to reports on ...
Facebook users have become aware of Facebook's intentions and people now see Facebook "as serving the interests of companies rather than its users." [313] In response to Facebook selling user information to third parties, concerned users have resorted to the method of "Obfuscation". Through obfuscation users can purposely hide their real ...
Major DNS resolvers returning "SERVFAIL" status for Facebook.com. Security experts identified the problem as a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) withdrawal of the IP address prefixes in which Facebook's Domain Name System (DNS) servers were hosted, making it impossible for users to resolve Facebook and related domain names, and reach services.
In August 2007 the code used to generate Facebook's home and search page as visitors browse the site was accidentally made public. [6] [7] A configuration problem on a Facebook server caused the PHP code to be displayed instead of the web page the code should have created, raising concerns about how secure private data on the site was.
Meta says most issues have been resolved after apps like Instagram, Facebook and Threads were experiencing issues on Wednesday afternoon and errors were reported by people across the internet.
Facebook alleged it was "old data" from a problem fixed in August 2019 despite the data's having been released a year and a half later only in 2021; it declined to speak with journalists, had apparently not notified regulators, called the problem "unfixable", and said it would not be advising users.