Aneesh is Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Global Studies Program and the Institute of World Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Previously, he taught in the Science and Technology Program at Stanford University. Aneesh is Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Global Studies Program and the Institute of World Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, A. V and Sriraj Kalluvila edited the piece with contributions from Eva Mathews and Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru additional reporting came from Tiyashi Datta, Nivedita Balu, and Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru Joseph Menn and Paresh Dave contributed from San Francisco and Sheila Dang from Dallas.A. Senate hearing on Instagram’s harm to teen girls.Īccording to Reuters, Haugen was scheduled to testify before the same Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, urging the committee to regulate the company, which she plans to compare to tobacco companies that denied for decades that smoking was harmful to one’s health.Īnil D’Silva, Sonya Hepinstall, Uttaresh. In July, a similar outage at Akamai Technologies Inc (AKAM.O), a cloud services provider, brought down numerous websites.Įarlier this week, Frances Haugen, a product manager on Facebook’s civic misinformation team, revealed that she was the whistleblower who provided documents to support a recent Wall Street Journal investigation and a recent U.S. ET, access began to return.Īs soon as the problem began, Facebook acknowledged that its apps were not working properly for some users, but it did not specify what the issue was or how many people were affected.Īccording to Facebook’s error message, the DNS (Domain Name System) was malfunctioning, preventing users from reaching their intended destinations. However, downtime at internet companies in the past has had little impact on revenue growth.įacebook’s services went dark at noon Eastern time, including consumer apps like Instagram, business tools it sells to companies, and internal programmes (1600 GMT).
On Facebook, one member of an ad-buying group joked that “lots of people searched today ‘how to run google ads for clients'” after the service returned.Īccording to estimates from ad measurement firm Standard Media Index, Facebook, the world’s second-largest online ad seller after Google, lost $545,000 in U.S. When Instagram and Facebook go down,” Netflix shared a meme from its new hit show “Squid Game” with the caption “When Twitter and everyone is down.” The meme showed a “Twitter” holding up “everyone,” who was about to fall, in one of the most popular tweets of the day. Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, said on Twitter that Facebook had “basically locked its keys in its car”.ĭue to higher-than-normal usage on Monday, some users had trouble accessing their posts and direct messages on Twitter. It “may take some time to get to 100 percent,” Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer tweeted to the company’s small and large businesses, families, and individuals who depend on us.
In after-hours trade, shares increased by about 0.5 percent as service was resumed.
This was part of a broader selloff in technology stocks. Shares of Facebook fell by 4.9% on Monday, their biggest daily drop since last November, as users flocked to rival apps like Twitter and TikTok.
Now there’s an outage, and it’s a big one. On Sunday a whistleblower accused the social media giant of repeatedly prioritizing profit over cracking down on hate speech and misinformation. This is the most significant outage in the history of web monitoring service Downdetector’s records.
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