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Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2021
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OT: Facebook, Instagram, What's App down worldwide!

  • October 4, 2021
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It's no great tragedy to me personally.  I don't use their platform & try to steer clear of anything FB-related (to the extent that one can). Just the same,  I can't help but wonder what's going on...   Is this an inside job?  What are the deeper implications of this hack?

 

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B i r n o u
B i r n o u
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October 4, 2021

do you have further details or explanations of what are you refering exactly to ?

 

Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity ExpertAuthor
Community Expert
October 4, 2021

Facebook and all its apps went down for several hours on Oct 4. 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-instagram-down-thousands-users-downdetectorcom-2021-10-04/

 

FB employees could not access anything or reset servers.  DNS records were wiped.  For a time, the domain was available for sale...

https://www.macobserver.com/news/facebook-is-for-sale-it-appears/

 

Twitter and Redit were on fire about it

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FACEBOOKDOWN

 

All this after a FB whistleblower came out publicly accusing FB of "putting profits over safety" of users.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-firm-places-profits-003930990.html

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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Legend
October 4, 2021

I did hear about it on a news website this morning but being an old fart I don't use any social media platforms, so I couldn't care less if they all disappeared up their own posteriors.

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