In addition to Facebook, T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, Google, Zoom and Amazon Web Services users have also reported outages, according to DownDetector. RELATED: Facebook pauses development of 'Instagram Kids' app after pushback Last week, Facebook also put a hold on the development of a kids' version of Instagram, geared toward children under 13, to address concerns that have been raised about the vulnerability of younger users. Nick Clegg, the company’s vice president of policy and public affairs, wrote to Facebook employees in a memo Friday that 'social media has had a big impact on society in recent years, and Facebook is often a place where much of this debate plays out.' The information was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in a series of stories, called 'The Facebook Files,' which painted a picture of a company focused on growth and its own interests instead of the public good.įacebook has tried to play down the research. RELATED: Whistleblower claims Facebook fed US Capitol riot, magnified misinformationįrances Haugen was identified in a '60 Minutes' interview Sunday as the woman who anonymously filed complaints with federal law enforcement that the company’s own research shows how it magnifies hate and misinformation, leads to increased polarization and that Instagram, specifically, can harm teenage girls' mental health. It also comes amid a major crisis at Facebook after a whistleblower exposed the company's alleged awareness of internal research into the negative effects of its products and decisions.

It is normal for websites and apps to suffer outages, though one on a global scale is rare.

If Facebook’s DNS records have disappeared, no one could find it. DNS translates an address like '' to an IP address like 123.45.67.890.

The Domain Name System is an integral element of how traffic on the internet is routed. Madory said it looks like the DNS routes that Facebook makes available to the networking world have been withdrawn.

Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for Kentik Inc., said it appears that the routes Facebook advertise online that tell the entire internet how to reach its properties are not available.

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