Facebook grappled on Thursday with a widespread outage, forcing millions of people to taste life without the world’s largest social media platform.
It was probably the last thing Facebook needed as it stumbles from problem to problem, including outrage over its use of customers’ private data.
“You guys should look in the mirror at yourselves and hear how you sound,” a person with the handle Johanna wrote on Downdetector around 0745 GMT. “Up and running here…for now…But I predict a baby boom in 9 months, Remember that day FB went down and people were forced to notice each other?”, this person wrote.The outage, of unknown origin, also affected Facebook-owned Instagram, as well as Messenger, although Instagram later said it was back up.– ‘Not a DDoS attack’ –
A short time later, Facebook indicated the outage was not related to an attack aimed at overwhelming the network. A grand jury in New York has subpoenaed information from at least two major smartphone makers about such arrangements with Facebook, according to the Times. “It has already been reported that there are ongoing federal investigations, including by the Department of Justice,” a Facebook spokesman said in response to an“As we’ve said before, we are cooperating with investigators and take those probes seriously. We’ve provided public testimony, answered questions, and pledged that we will continue to do so.”
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