Coverage dated October 3, 2021 to October 7, 2021

Facebook apps stop working for some users days after massive outage

Headline from KVIA El Paso, on the newest of 3 developments

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Just days after several of its major services went down for about six hours, Facebook is suffering another outage. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” the company said on its verified Twitter account on Friday.

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Developments in this update

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  1. Outage highlights how vital Facebook has become worldwide

    Headline from Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier ·

  2. Outage shows how vital Facebook has become worldwide

    Headline from Hickory Daily Record ·

  3. Newest

    Facebook apps stop working for some users days after massive outage

    Headline from KVIA El Paso ·

Reports & sources

60 articles, oldest first.

  1. Engadget

    Facebook is coming back online after hours-long outage (opens Engadget)

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    Engadget's feed description

    Facebook services seems to be slowly coming back online after one of the biggest outages in recent memory..

  2. Wfmy News 2

    Facebook and Instagram outages reported around the globe (opens Wfmy News 2)

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    Wfmy News 2's feed description

    Users reported experiencing issues with the social media company's services before noon Monday.

  3. Insider

    Every Facebook-owned app appears to be down in a widespread outage (opens Insider)

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    Insider's feed description

    Facebook apps like Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook itself were down on Monday in a major outage.

  4. Deutsche Welle

    Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp return after outage — live updates | DW (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Deutsche Welle's feed description

    Social media giant Facebook has reported that apps and services are getting reconnected after an outage of more that six hours.

  5. WOGX Ocala

    Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp down: Platforms 'coming back online' after outage (opens WOGX Ocala)

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    WOGX Ocala's feed description

    Facebook and its apps Instagram and WhatsApp were all down on Monday in an apparent widespread outage, according to the company.

  6. New York Times

    Facebook says its outage was caused by a cascade of errors. (opens New York Times)

    Published

    New York Times's feed description

    For more than five hours, the company’s family of apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were unavailable to the billions who use them.

  7. The Hill

    Facebook and related apps slowly coming back online after lengthy outage (opens The Hill)

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    The Hill's feed description

    After going offline for several hours on Monday, Facebook and several of its social media platforms have begun to slowly come back online.

  8. Wfmy News 2

    Facebook and Instagram back online after hours-long global outage (opens Wfmy News 2)

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    Wfmy News 2's feed description

    Around 6:30 p.m. ET, Facebook said access to its apps and social media services are "coming back online now."

  9. The Daily News (Longview)

    Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage (opens The Daily News (Longview))

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    The Daily News (Longview)'s feed description

    The massive global outage that plunged Facebook, its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms and many people who rely heavily on these services — including Facebook’s own workforce — into chaos Monday

  10. Breitbart News

    Facebook Blames Catastrophic Outage on 'Configuration Changes' (opens Breitbart News)

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    Breitbart News's feed description

    Facebook services have come back online following an outage lasting about seven hours, the longest downtime that the site has seen since 2008. The catastrophic outage also impacted the company's Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, bringing the Masters of the Universe to a grinding halt for most of Mon…

  11. Adweek

    Case of the Mondays: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Other Apps Down for 6+ Hours (opens Adweek)

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    Adweek's feed description

    It marked the longest outage for the social network since March 2019.

  12. The Washington Free Beacon

    Facebook, Instagram Suffer Widespread Outage (opens The Washington Free Beacon)

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    The Washington Free Beacon's feed description

    Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp simultaneously crashed Monday afternoon, the latest setback the social media giant has faced in recent weeks.

  13. The Guardian

    Facebook outage: what went wrong and why did it take so long to fix after social platform went down? (opens The Guardian)

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    The Guardian's feed description

    Billions of users were unable to access Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for hours while the social media giant scrambled to restore services

  14. Moultrie Observer

    Outage highlights how vital Facebook has become worldwide (opens Moultrie Observer)

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    Moultrie Observer's feed description

    NEW YORK (AP) — The six-hour outage at Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp was a headache for many casual users but far more serious for the millions of people worldwide who

  15. The Columbian

    Here’s what Facebook says triggered the massive outage on its apps (opens The Columbian)

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    The Columbian's feed description

    Facebook Inc. blamed a global service outage that kept its social media apps offline for much of Monday on a problem with its network configuration, adding that it found no evidence that user data was

  16. Hickory Daily Record

    Outage shows how vital Facebook has become worldwide (opens Hickory Daily Record)

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    Hickory Daily Record's feed description

    When Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp all went dark Monday, it was a stark reminder of the power and reach of Facebook.

  17. Thv11

    Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance (opens Thv11)

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    Thv11's feed description

    Engineers were updating the social network's global backbone network when the error occurred.

  18. Fox News

    ‘Social Dilemma’ star says Facebook outage proves need for regulation after blackout hurt small businesses (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    Facebook suffered a massive global outage on Monday that shut down its main site, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms for roughly six hours, and a prominent social media critic said the incident proves how controlling the company truly is.

  19. PBS NewsHour

    Facebook blames massive outage on error during routine maintenance (opens PBS NewsHour)

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    PBS NewsHour's feed description

    Facebook's vice president of infrastructure said that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp going dark was "caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our own making."

  20. KVIA El Paso

    Facebook apps stop working for some users days after massive outage (opens KVIA El Paso)

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    KVIA El Paso's feed description

    By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Just days after several of its major services went down for about six hours, Facebook is suffering another outage. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” the company said on its verified Twitter account on Friday.

  21. ABC 10 Sacramento

    Facebook, Instagram and Messenger down again for some users (opens ABC 10 Sacramento)

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    ABC 10 Sacramento's feed description

    Friday's outage did not appear to be as widespread as Monday's Facebook issue that knocked the social media platform offline for several hours.

  22. Fox10 Phoenix

    Instagram down: Facebook says some users unable to access platforms again (opens Fox10 Phoenix)

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    Fox10 Phoenix's feed description

    Facebook and Instagram appear to be experiencing issues on Friday, just days after a global outage occurred.

  23. Forbes

    Facebook, Instagram And WhatsApp Are Suffering Another Outage (opens Forbes)

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    Forbes's feed description

    Some users Friday afternoon reported problems accessing the app as well as the company’s other social media and messaging services, Instagram and WhatsApp.

  24. The Guardian

    Facebook Messenger and Instagram hit by second outage in a week (opens The Guardian)

    Published

    The Guardian's feed description

    Facebook apologises to users struggling to access picture feeds and send messages

  25. FOX Business

    Users report trouble on Facebook, Instagram just days after global outage (opens FOX Business)

    Published

    FOX Business's feed description

    Facebook acknowledged that some users were unable to access its platforms on Friday afternoon, days after an outage knocked the social media company’s services offline for several hours.

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