The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down
Global users are experiencing outages on Facebook, including all social networks the company owns, which include Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp. When navigating to these websites, a server error will appear — Instagram shows a “5xx server error,” which indicates that this is an issue with Facebook’s servers. Users are also unable to send messages or […]
Facebook “is tearing our societies apart,” whistleblower says in interview
“Facebook, over and over again, chose to optimize for its own interests.”
How ‘losing friend to misinformation’ drove Facebook whistleblower
Frances Haugen was frustrated that Facebook was not publicly acknowledging the harm its platforms could causeFrances Haugen, the whistleblower behind a series of damaging revelations about Facebook, is adamant that she wants to help the social media co…
Facebook whistleblower reveals identity, says company ‘chooses profits over safety’
The whistleblower who brought information about Facebook’s awareness of Instagram’s impact on teens has revealed herself as Frances Haugen in an interview with 60 Minutes.
“If we make more angry content, we get more engagement.”
Whistleblower Frances Haugen will give congressional testimony later this week about internal Facebook research and communications she gave to the SEC, in the form of tens of thousands of pages that document the company’s deliberate and deceitful ampli…
Facebook putting profit before public good, says whistleblower Frances Haugen
Internal papers show firm is lying about making progress against hate, violence and misinformation, ex-employee saysA former Facebook employee has accused the company of putting profit over the public good, after coming forward as the whistleblower who…
Facebook Whistleblower Speaks, Shares Documents on Deliberate Lies and Disregard of Misinformation, Contacts US Regulators
An Iowa data scientist with a computer engineering degree and a Harvard MBA has come forward as the whistleblower leaking damaging information about Facebook to the Wall Street Journal — and that’s just the beginning. They’ve now also filed at le…
Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol attack
Former employee is set to air her claims and reveal her identity in an interview airing Sunday night on CBS 60 Minutes A whistleblower at Facebook will say that thousands of pages of internal company research she turned over to federal regulators prove…
‘The Big Delete:’ Inside Facebook’s Crackdown in Germany
“Days before Germany’s federal elections, Facebook took what it called an unprecedented step: the removal of a series of accounts that worked together to spread COVID-19 misinformation and encourage violent responses to COVID restrictions,” reports the…