“Billions of users have been impacted by the services being entirely offline today,” tracker Downdetector wrote on its website.įacebook apologized in a tweet later Monday Silicon Valley time, just as the apps started to go back online. Update 6:48PM ET: Added a note that WhatsApp is also coming back online.Many long-held fears and criticisms about the platform seem to have been backed up by Facebook’s own research, which ex-worker Frances Haugen has turned over to authorities and the Wall Street Journal.īut as US senators prepared for her highly anticipated Tuesday testimony on the documents, Facebook went offline in an outage that hit users across its platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp. Update 6:07PM ET: Added a note that Facebook and Instagram started coming back online. Update 4:39PM ET: Added comment from Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer. Update 3:04PM ET: Added context from Brian Krebs. Akamai eventually fixed the problem later that same day. Facebook alone is in control over its DNS records.'īack in July, Akamai Technologies, one of the largest content delivery networks in the world, went through a similar outage, leading to a large section of the internet, including platforms like the PlayStation Store, TikTok and LastPass, becoming inaccessible. 'It could well have been the result of an internal, system-wide change or update that went awry. Per journalist Brian Krebs, Facebook's DNS records were withdrawn from the global routing tables sometime this morning.'We don't know why this change was made,' Krebs wrote in a tweet. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.

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