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October 4, 2021: What just happened to Facebook and Instagram?
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Today: What just happened to Facebook and Instagram?
• What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp? by Brian Krebs, today, October 4: "Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online."
"... The outages come just hours after CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a much-anticipated interview with Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who recently leaked a number of internal Facebook investigations showing the company knew its products were causing mass harm, and that it prioritized profits over taking bolder steps to curtail abuse on its platform — including disinformation and hate speech."
• Facebook and all of its apps go down simultaneously (Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel at the NYT, Oct 4, 2021): "Facebook has dispatched a small team to one of its California data centers to try and manually reset its servers in an attempt to fix the problem."
• Ed Snowden posts: "Facebook and Instagram go mysteriously offline and, for one shining day, the world becomes a healthier place."
• Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview (excerpted on toxic YouTube, Oct 3, 2021)
• Transcript of 60 Minutes interview
• As I just posted: Now is an excellent time to email your local authorities, school, camp, church, soccer league, whatever - and tell them: "Please stop posting your updates on Facebook and Instagram, which are liable to disappear. Instead, use a website on the open web, and email updates."
• Voice surveillance must die (by Mark Hurst, Sept 30, 2021): more thoughts based on the book featured in last week's show.
• Also to discuss:
- DNS and why facebook.com is for sale
- your calls
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What’s new?
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Jeff Moore:
"Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors."
twitter.com...
ohme:
Facebook is down for required maintenance right now, but you should be able to get back on within a few minutes. In the meantime, read more about why you're seeing this message. Thanks for your patience as we improve the site.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...& then hearing the USPS had also been down, I got that 2nd tower being hit feeling...
The NYT just had an op-ed about the whistle blower
...the Pandora leak just exposed world leader corruption - 12 million documents. & the largest conduit of communication went down.
Look squirrel ! (?)
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wahhhh
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Facebook & Instagram are back up & running.
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Not that he's a hero...
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Jeff Moore:
It sounds less like the DNS records were deleted than that the underlying routing providing connections to the DNS (and other!) servers for Facebook went awry. Their DNS servers probably have all the necessary information in them ready to serve, but they got disconnected!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...but this is hardly inconspicuous.
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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- & I love what it does for me.
I know it's evil, opaque, profits from contention & social discord - &tc.
That is - I'd like to be a Reformist.
But - it's pretty clear Reform & Incrementalism are *impossible*. Seems to me.
Mike From Brooklyn:
@Carolyn Pittis - you are not wrong about this outage helping Facebook highlight the benefits of their platform. I recall a few years ago when there was a global Blackberry outage (back when Blackberries were essential for business communication) and their stock price when up immediately after, as investors realized how essential they were.
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And maybe you're diving a little too enthusiastically into conspiracy thinking (not about the evils of Facebook, but about the origins of this outage).
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SO loving this -- thanks so much!
and yes indeed -- upchuck Zuck! :)
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Also - end the Monopolies. Restore Tech & Internet Competition.
No plan for that either.
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Mark hope FB never comes back
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Enough said, Delete it!
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- & now it all has to be thru three of five Monoplies.
Man have they ever stolen ice from eskimos & sold it back to them.
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...they sure do a user-unfriendly job for a Platform.
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But Zuck does profit from destabilizing & toxifying Society - whatever else it does (which I use constantly). & this one man is unassailable from business Competition - or from Litigation. Because money rules.
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