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posted by chromas on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the downtime-as-a-public-service dept.

Facebook appears to be down.

A link for this submission? Really? But it is down, as in not working. Error 5 - something went wrong.

[chromas adds] From VOA:

Instagram is back up after suffering a partial outage for more than several hours, the photo-sharing social network platform said in a tweet, but its parent Facebook Inc.'s app still seemed to be down for some users around the globe.

Certain users had trouble in accessing widely used Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook apps earlier Wednesday, in one of the longest outages faced by the company in the recent past.

[...] A Facebook spokesman confirmed the partial outage, but did not provide an update. The social networking site had issues for more than 12 hours, according to its developer's page.

Facebook took to Twitter to inform users that it was working to resolve the issue as soon as possible and confirmed that the matter was not related to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:50PM (4 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:50PM (#814189) Homepage Journal

    More's the pity.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:59PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:59PM (#814195) Journal

    At least we've got anti-vaccination propaganda flowing again.

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday March 15 2019, @04:00AM (2 children)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday March 15 2019, @04:00AM (#814656)

      Anti-vaxxers are grassroots. Perhaps unhinged, under-educated unequivocal nut jobs, but they're not really propagandists - they're (mostly) too disorganized for propaganda, they're more of the gossip, rumor and conspiracy theory set. Should you listen to them as a source of factual information? Hell no.

      Pro-vaxxers definitely qualify as propagandists, and as such I find it hard to believe 100% of what they push.

      If you want to be as rare as autism, try thinking for yourself instead of just listening to others.

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      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 15 2019, @02:04PM (1 child)

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 15 2019, @02:04PM (#814756) Journal

        try thinking for yourself instead of just listening to others.

        If I think for myself, then I wouldn't listen to you telling me to think for myself. Therefore, I would not be thinking for myself but listening to others.

        OTOH, if I listen to others who tell me to think for myself, then I am not thinking for myself.

        Now stuck in infinite loop.

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        • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday March 15 2019, @02:35PM

          by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday March 15 2019, @02:35PM (#814773)

          If I think for myself, then I wouldn't listen to you telling me to think for myself. Therefore, I would not be thinking for myself but listening to others.

          I believe Schrödinger has your cat.

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