Facebook blames nearly six-hour major outage on router work
"This interruption in network traffic had a cascading impact on the way our data centres communicated, bringing our services to a standstill," wrote the Facebook vice president of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan in a post.
FollowFacebook attributed the outage to adjustments it made to routers that manage network traffic between its data centres. "This interruption in network traffic had a cascading impact on the way our data centres communicated, bringing our services to a standstill," wrote the Facebook vice president of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan in a post. According to cyber security expert Brian Krebs, Facebook removed "the map instructing the world's computers how to access its different web sites."
In addition to the inconvenience caused to people, businesses, and others that rely on Facebook's products, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg suffered a financial setback. According to Fortune's billionaire monitoring website, Zuckerberg's fortune fell by over $7 billion from the previous day to just under $117 billion late Monday. However, it was a good day for Facebook's competitors. According to specialised business SensorTower, the messaging service Telegram rose from the 56th to the fifth most downloaded free app in the United States. Signal, an encrypted messaging service, announced that "millions" of new users have joined and that it was "Signal and ready to mignal."
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the digital behemoths Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instagram, apologised for the outage and assured that the services would be restored on Tuesday. "Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are all backup and operational," Zuckerberg said on Facebook. "I apologise for the inconvenience today; I understand how much you rely on our services to keep connected with the people you care about," he said.
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Facebook's reputation has suffered as a result of the last 48 hours. First, a former Facebook employee said that the company prioritised profit before combating hate speech and disinformation. Frances Haugen, a former product manager for Facebook's civic disinformation team, said that her former employers misled about making progress against bigotry and misinformation on their platform.
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