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Facebook and Instagram’s massive outage explained

The social network’s services, including Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, were offline for about six hours on Monday.

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  1. Rounak Datta

    October 5, 2021 at 11:47 pm

    Got it 👌🏻

  2. J.D. Vision

    October 5, 2021 at 11:48 pm

    Yeah whatever 🙄…
    We would be better off without them anyway, along with Main Stream Media.

    • VOLTRON

      October 6, 2021 at 12:38 am

      They definitely be banned. There brainwashing people for profit. It’s disgusting.

  3. ThexBorg

    October 5, 2021 at 11:48 pm

    DNS

  4. Bob Lee Swagger

    October 5, 2021 at 11:52 pm

    Just a Coincidence that Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of Congress about Facebook during the outage

  5. Scorpio Phoenix

    October 5, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    LIES

  6. TdyYrLove

    October 6, 2021 at 12:00 am

    I never even noticed they were down.

  7. D M

    October 6, 2021 at 12:00 am

    Yeah thats what Mark Zuckerbitch has told you. Don’t believe that low life for one sec what he says. I’d say it was deliberately done by him to change or delete things that has just been said from a employee regarding money over people’s safety etc.
    Wouldn’t piss on this guy if he was on fire.

  8. Amit Ezuthachan

    October 6, 2021 at 12:00 am

    lies

  9. David Giles

    October 6, 2021 at 12:06 am

    Would have been wonderful if they were all down for good.

  10. Life Game Changer

    October 6, 2021 at 12:09 am

    It’s crazy how people have invented stuff like this

  11. Jason Fisher

    October 6, 2021 at 12:14 am

    Yeah ok 👌

  12. Shayna Kaiser

    October 6, 2021 at 12:15 am

    We all know what happened. They shut everything down to delete evidence of their wrongdoing!

  13. Brian B.

    October 6, 2021 at 12:16 am

    Mark Zuckerberg lost $6,000,000,000 in worth today! (Yeah, that’s Six Billion..)

    So, something good came out of this…

  14. 3min3mStan

    October 6, 2021 at 12:18 am

    We are anonymous

    • zrobeast

      October 6, 2021 at 12:34 am

      Except we know your name is Stan.

    • 3min3mStan

      October 6, 2021 at 12:37 am

      @zrobeast Turn the threes around

  15. Rashad

    October 6, 2021 at 12:21 am

    *It didn’t last long enough*

  16. ABSOLUTELY 🤔 ANTIFA

    October 6, 2021 at 12:25 am

    “ DELETING EVIDENCE “

    • ABSOLUTELY 🤔 ANTIFA

      October 6, 2021 at 12:25 am

      “ SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY “

  17. nwright28

    October 6, 2021 at 12:28 am

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  18. bugman728

    October 6, 2021 at 12:33 am

    Convenient

  19. Braska Bani

    October 6, 2021 at 12:42 am

    Good

  20. Damian ten Bohmer

    October 6, 2021 at 12:52 am

    Let’s try to have a Facebook Free day every Monday from now on. 😉🤭

  21. Quentin Manson

    October 6, 2021 at 1:05 am

    A much needed break for some

  22. Matt

    October 6, 2021 at 1:09 am

    Too bad it was only down for 6 hours and not forever.

  23. CouchCommander5000

    October 6, 2021 at 1:12 am

    I’m not sure which people I detest more. Facebook, or Instagram junkies. Absolutely disgusting human beings.

  24. Jay Gatsby

    October 6, 2021 at 1:19 am

    Can’t live without them

  25. Jermaine

    October 6, 2021 at 1:27 am

    The network guys always get blamed lol. That’s I.T for you

  26. Npc I'm knot

    October 6, 2021 at 5:52 am

    Thats why you use fake info for stuff liek taht lol

  27. Aharon Robinson

    October 6, 2021 at 6:17 am

    As an engineer this still isn’t making sense to me that there is this large of a bottleneck

    • EpicStark

      October 6, 2021 at 7:11 pm

      🧑🏻‍💻same 🙋🏻‍♂️

    • Oliver Smith

      October 6, 2021 at 9:08 pm

      Does “large of a bottleneck” mean it is narrow or wide?

  28. nashathedog

    October 6, 2021 at 6:39 am

    I imagine Gen Z & younger all threw a fit. 🤣

  29. jack27nikk

    October 6, 2021 at 6:58 am

    I wish it continued for some days 😬🤣that could be peaceful

  30. Stéphane Edwardson

    October 6, 2021 at 7:11 am

    Please, no more vertical videos!

  31. Logi Master

    October 6, 2021 at 7:15 am

    “How dependent people are of Facebooks services”

    Am I the only one that didn’t even notice any of Facebooks services went down till I read the news the next day?

    • Jazz_K

      October 6, 2021 at 7:53 am

      I get social media like Facebook and not having an account, but don’t you use WhatsApp? I feel like it’s the most used messaging app. That’s the only reason why I instantly knew something was happening with servers.

    • Logi Master

      October 6, 2021 at 8:24 am

      @Jazz_K Nope, I use discord to talk to my friends and my family just send text messages as they still have dumb phones.

    • Jazz_K

      October 6, 2021 at 8:37 am

      @Logi Master haha fair enough, pesky dumb phones

    • Oliver Smith

      October 6, 2021 at 9:10 pm

      WhatsApp is used by literally billions of people as the main way of communication with others in their life.

  32. Brookville Kansas

    October 6, 2021 at 7:52 am

    Basically fbook reminding the world we own you and we are a global powerhouse, don’t forget that peasants…

  33. Brookville Kansas

    October 6, 2021 at 8:02 am

    A large portion of developing countries economies depend on facebook to conduct business, it allows businesses to communicate with customers as well. These are areas of the world that have populations that are unbanked or underbanked. Estimated at 4.9 billion people in the world fall under this category (why crypto currencies are powerful). We don’t feel the effects of an outage due to us having mature markets and banking systems. But this was huge for 1/2 the globe whose commerce came to a standstill.

  34. Mich Washington

    October 6, 2021 at 8:26 am

    Sounds sus to me….

  35. eric brooks

    October 6, 2021 at 9:31 am

    Who cares? Never had facebook, NEVER will.

  36. Cameron Tait

    October 6, 2021 at 9:50 am

    Yeah right.

  37. Hector G.

    October 6, 2021 at 10:08 am

    It nothing else, this should wake people up to not having such a dependency on Facebook or any other platform.

  38. yogibearstie

    October 6, 2021 at 11:38 am

    6 hours to bring up the DNS server?

  39. Nixa Eagle

    October 6, 2021 at 1:40 pm

    Fklberg delete delete delete

  40. DSN 1

    October 6, 2021 at 2:18 pm

    I was sleeping through it so didn’t notice

  41. Cosmic Jerry

    October 6, 2021 at 2:52 pm

    🤖 ☕ 💻 I can’t Log into Facebook.

  42. Chris Jones

    October 6, 2021 at 3:08 pm

    I didn’t even notice! Wake up and leave social media sheeple! It’s killing society!

  43. Ahsan

    October 6, 2021 at 4:32 pm

    🤔💭I’m pretty sure that they did it to hide documents and data related to illegal methods that they were using to make people addicted to Facebook and illegal tactics to make people depressed. PLUS, to diverge their attention from the those issues to this problem. As, recently a Facebook employee has released a documents regard illegal methods that Facebook use to make people depress

  44. phil pugliese

    October 6, 2021 at 5:12 pm

    O.K. must be true, sun light off of swamp gas and Venus is UFO’s, Bribedon won the election, the crooks are just hiding evidence.

  45. ninpo14

    October 6, 2021 at 8:43 pm

    Great reporting!

  46. Jussainwuturthinkn

    October 6, 2021 at 9:31 pm

    I notice happier people while they were offline.

  47. Susana Dias Johnson

    October 6, 2021 at 9:33 pm

    DON’T. YOU. BELIEVE. IT.
    THEY DELIBERATELY
    PUT A “FIREWALL”
    BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND THE GLOBAL
    REVEAL OF THEIR CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN.
    THE ENTIRE ATTEMPT WAS TO SILENCE THE TRUTH FROM OUTTING.

  48. Monte VanNortwick

    October 6, 2021 at 11:50 pm

    A few more details please…

  49. Tony

    October 7, 2021 at 12:13 am

    Didn’t even notice

  50. Dave N

    October 7, 2021 at 4:07 pm

    No they were just trying to delete the dirt they got themselves into.

  51. H. Mandelene

    October 7, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    I think their explanation is a lie because stuff I deleted in facebook are back again.
    Why would they restore data if the problem was a network problem????

  52. John Gyver

    October 7, 2021 at 7:33 pm

    They unfortunately turned it on back again….

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