Facebook and Instagram appear to be back online after widespread global outages across Facebook’s suite of services and apps, including Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp were reported early on Monday morning.
At around 9:30am on Monday morning, Facebook issued a statement via Twitter that said: “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
Mike Schroepfer, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Facebook said, “apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.”
The issues appears to be related to Domain Name Server (DNS) addresses directing Facebook’s users to the wrong location. A similar issue was reported with Akamai’s servers back in July, causing company websites for Home Depot, American Express, and Costco to all go down.
The Facebook outages come on the heels of former employee, Francis Haugen’s accusation that the company does not clamp down hard enough on hate speech and misinformation. Haugen filed multiple complaints with the SEC that are expected to outline how Facebook consistently prioritized profit over the health and well-being of their users.
Facebook stocks fell by 4.89% today. On Wall Street, the technology sector in general experienced a slump. According to Fidelity Investments, tech companies as a whole fell by 2.36% on Monday.
