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Instagram logged some 21,000 reports of outages while about 14,000 reports of WhatsApp being down were tracked in Canada. The massive collapse comes the morning after Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed on 60 Minutes that Facebook’s own research shows that it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest to maximize profits over the public good.ĭowndetector, a website that monitors complaints about such outages, noted there were more than 35,000 Canadians complaining about a Facebook outage shortly after the sites went down. Toronto man charged with attempted murder following a shooting at a Mississauga club UPDATE: The Amber Alert has been cancelled That process is already underway.Three busted in Niagara police drug raid, over $120,000 in fentanyl and other opiates found

After every issue, small and large, we do an extensive review process to understand how we can make our systems more resilient. In a nutshell, during a routine maintenance job, 'a command was issued with the intention to assess the availability of global backbone capacity, which unintentionally took down all the connections in our backbone network, effectively disconnecting Facebook data centers globally.'įacebook has vowed to learn a lesson from this outage, with Janardhan concluding:Įvery failure like this is an opportunity to learn and get better, and there’s plenty for us to learn from this one. Janardhan confirms the source was 'the system that manages our global backbone network capacity.' In another post on Facebook Engineering, Santosh Janardhan, Facebook's VP of infrastructure, went into more detail about what happened and why. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt. Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. In a post on Facebook Engineering, the social network explained:

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