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Facebook Is Down
2021-10-04 22:55

Facebook - along with Instagram and WhatsApp - went down globally today.

At approximately 11:39 a.m. ET today, someone at Facebook caused an update to be made to the company's Border Gateway Protocol records.

In addition to stranding billions of users, the Facebook outage also has stranded its employees from communicating with one another using their internal Facebook tools.

That's because Facebook's email and tools are all managed in house and via the same domains that are now stranded.

Every third-party site that relies on "Log in with Facebook" is stuck as well.

As a former network admin who worked on the internet at this level, I anticipate Facebook will be down for hours more.


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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/10/facebook-is-down.html

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