A massive crash of Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram is currently affecting users all over the world. Around 5:40 p.m., both the web version and the applications of these social networks have stopped working. Thousands of users from Spain and several Latin American countries alert on Twitter of this global failure, still without a solution .
Tens of thousands of Internet users in the United States, Mexico, France, Romania, Norway, Georgia, Greece and other countries flocked to the popular portal to report that they could not access services .
In the specific case of the popular instant messaging application WhatsApp, when users send messages,The message “connecting” and a clock icon appear , but the content is not sent to its recipient.
Users turn to Twitter in search of explanations
As is often the case in these cases, most users turn to Twitter to try to find an explanation for what is happening with their social communication channels.
We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!
– WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) October 4, 2021
The WhatsApp profile itself posted on its official Twitter accountthat “We are aware that some people are experiencing problems with WhatsApp at the moment. We are working to get everything back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.”
“We are working to return things to normal”
“We are aware that there are people who are having problems accessing our applications and products,” they indicated from the firm led by Mark Zuckerberg in a statement.
” We are working to return things to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience,” they pointed out from the social network.
The general outage of Facebook services occurs whenThe company is in the midst of heavy public scrutiny following the publication in “The Wall Street Journal” of a series of articles drawn from internal company reports.
Among other things, the documents determine that Instagram is harmful to a part of its youngest users and that it is especially “toxic” for adolescents , since it “aggravates” the problems that one in three girls has with their body image.
In an interview on the television program “60 Minutes”, the former Facebook employee who leaked that documentation to the press, Frances Haugen, explained that during her time at the company she was “alarmed” by the decisions that were being made, in which “Profits were put ahead of public safety and people’s lives were put at risk.”
Controversy ‘The Wall Street Journal’
The widespread fall of Facebook services comes as the company finds itself in the midst of strong public scrutiny after the publication in The Wall Street Journal of a series of articles made from internal reports of the company.
Among other things, the documents determine that Instagram is harmful to a part of its younger users and that it is especially “toxic” for adolescents, since it “aggravates” the problems that one in three girls has with their body image.
In an interview on the television program 60 Minutes, the former Facebook employee who leaked that documentation to the press, Frances Haugen , explained that during her time at the company she was “alarmed” by the decisions that were being made, in which the profits were put ahead of public safety and people’s lives were put at risk.