Facebook is down. DDoS?

[nlinecomputers]

Facebook is down worldwide according to multiple media reports. Last night a former Facebook employee turned whistleblower was interviewed on 60 minutes. Might be just bad luck but I wonder if ol’Zuck is getting ram rodded by a DDoS.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yeah noticed about 30 minutes ago.....browser on neither server will open it up. Phone app just shows stale posts but doesn't give an error.

Saw the whistleblower thing on the morning news at 6am.

 

[seashore]

Yep. looks like problems.

 

[phaZed]

The internet just got better.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Facebook.com down, the week one of their data scientists hired to fight misinformation is scheduled to testify before Congress?

Accident?

Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation

Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports.

www.cbsnews.com

I think not...

Facebook is back online after a massive outage that also took down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus

It’s always DNS.

www.theverge.com

 

[JoeTech]

Imagine if social media is forced to use disclaimers like cigarette or drug companies where they finally acknowledge the harm of their product to avoid liability.

"This product is designed to manipulate your emotions for ad revenue. No reasonable person should believe what they see on our site.”

“If you find yourself suffering from depression, suicidal thoughts, or an uncontrollable rage towards a random person on the internet, stop taking Facebook and consult a therapist"

 

[nlinecomputers]

Somewhere in a basement at Facebook HQ a janitor unplugged a server to plug in his floor buffer. #facebookdown

 

[thatdude]

I'm not trying to get political on this in any way. But, whether you're left wing, right wing, conservative, liberal, or of any creed....can we all agree FaceBook Sucks?

 

[nlinecomputers]

I'm not trying to get political on this in any way. But, whether you're left wing, right wing, conservative, liberal, or of any creed....can we all agree FaceBook Sucks?

Yes,but also absolutely necessary. I keep up on industry issues via the various Facebook groups I’m a member of.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yes,but also absolutely necessary. I keep up on industry issues via the various Facebook groups I’m a member of.

Yeah, same...I mostly just hang in the groups.

 

[thatdude]

I keep up on industry issues via the various Facebook groups I’m a member of.

@nlinecomputers, Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! You don't get all your industry news from this forum? Dude, are you cheating on folks here?

 

[britechguy]

Well, like all things, Facebook devolved from being almost "all good" at its inception to a cesspit with selected venues within it somehow rising above the sewage.

That seems to be the fate of social media in general, particularly since it is unmoderated for the most part. The loudest and crassest voices tend to take over where no one is gatekeeping.

 

[thatdude]

@britechguy, that was very well said. Still sucks though dude

 

[JoeTech]

Interesting to read the comments here. Some say the entire facebook network was taken down to stop employees and regular people from talking or sharing anything about the testimony. Others are saying this is bad for Facebook because now everyone is googling Facebook and seeing the news articles that would not have seen the articles.. While others are saying it could have been a rogue high level employee with an axe to grind against management. I'm sure we will never know the real reason behind this.

What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

 

[nlinecomputers]

Interesting to read the comments here. Some say the entire facebook network was taken down to stop employees and regular people from talking or sharing anything about the testimony. Others are saying this is bad for Facebook because now everyone is googling Facebook and seeing the news articles that would not have seen the articles.. While others are saying it could have been a rogue high level employee with an axe to grind against management. I'm sure we will never know the real reason behind this.

What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp? | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

TL : DR the post. But it seems an awfully big coincidence that when a major whissleblower has a big interview on the previous day and the same person has congressional testimony tomorrow that FB goes down hard. OTOH, it is not the first time that FB rolled out an internal update and crashed the entire service. They had it happen back in 2019. They were down for a whole day.

 

[Sky-Knight]

TL : DR the post. But it seems an awfully big coincidence that when a major whissleblower has a big interview on the previous day and the same person has congressional testimony tomorrow that FB goes down hard. OTOH, it is not the first time that FB rolled out an internal update and crashed the entire service. They had it happen back in 2019. They were down for a whole day.

Doesn't really matter now does it? The why of this outage is irrelevant, the news that needed spread is doing so.

Facebook apparently having internal data that shows Instagram has a destabliizer for teenagers already being emotionally unstable is particularly dripping... They do look very much like big tobacco did in the 70s. A "Surgeons' General" warning to that effect would be particularly ironic, if only one ignores history.

I don't really see this mess as political... because we all suffer from the plague of fake news. And I for one grow weary of being "that guy" to my friends and family calling BS on literally every share. It's exhausting.

But the loss of the tool that Facebook is for me professionally is annoying, but not the end of the world.

What took Facebook down

DNS appears to be a symptom of the root cause of Facebook's global failure. Hours later, Facebook finally came back up.

www.zdnet.com

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA They managed to take out the BGP routes that support their entire infrastructure... no authentication... no DNS... nothing. There are people that cannot get into work because their badges cannot open doors!

This level of insanity doesn't happen on accident... this is deliberate. Facebook has deplatformed itself by disabling the address advertisements for their own IP blocks! The cluster is DEAD JIM!

Everyone here that uses remote support tools should be watching this unfold, and take a HARD LOOK at the postmortem. There are multiple failures at play here, and our tools can do this to our entire client base all at once if we don't think long and hard about the issues at hand.

 

[cypress]

Yes,but also absolutely necessary. I keep up on industry issues via the various Facebook groups I’m a member of.

That's all I use it for now as well, oh and memes too. lmao!

 

[Markverhyden]

Facebook.com down, the week one of their data scientists hired to fight misinformation is scheduled to testify before Congress?

Accident?

Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation

Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports.

www.cbsnews.com

I think not...

Facebook is back online after a massive outage that also took down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus

It’s always DNS.

www.theverge.com

The WSJ has been running a series of articles since mid September about Facebook, aka The Facebook Files. Ms Haugan apparently was the main whistleblower on this.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Everyone here that uses remote support tools should be watching this unfold, and take a HARD LOOK at the postmortem. There are multiple failures at play here, and our tools can do this to our entire client base all at once if we don't think long and hard about the issues at hand.

Yep. Internal security at Facebook is a joke considering bo how easy it was for one woman to access the information she did and the fact that one guy or a small internal group is able to press a button and kneecap the entire system. There is no security without physical security.

 

[Porthos]

Zuckerberg Loses $6 Billion in Hours as Facebook Plunges

Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by more than $6 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline.

www.bloomberg.com

Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by more than $6 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline.

A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting 4.9% on Monday, adding to a drop of about 15% since mid-September.

The stock slide on Monday sent Zuckerberg’s worth down to $121.6 billion, dropping him below Bill Gates to No. 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He’s down from almost $140 billion in a matter of weeks, according to the index.