{"id":10645,"date":"2022-07-14T05:44:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T05:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2022-07-14T05:44:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T05:44:17","slug":"what-happened-to-facebook-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-to-facebook-today","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Facebook Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_43 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e1d4f875480\" class=\"cssicon\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;direction:ltr;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e1d4f875480\"  class=\"cssiconcheckbox\">1<\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e1d4f875480\" ><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-to-facebook-today\/#What_Happened_to_Facebook_Today\" title=\"What Happened to Facebook Today?\">What Happened to Facebook Today?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-to-facebook-today\/#Facebooks_business_model_is_gathering_private_data_about_users_and_selling_it_to_advertisers\" title=\"Facebook&#8217;s business model is gathering private data about users and selling it to advertisers\">Facebook&#8217;s business model is gathering private data about users and selling it to advertisers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-to-facebook-today\/#Facebooks_last_significant_outage_was_in_2019\" title=\"Facebook&#8217;s last significant outage was in 2019\">Facebook&#8217;s last significant outage was in 2019<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-to-facebook-today\/#Erroneous_BGP_route_update_caused_outage\" title=\"Erroneous BGP route update caused outage\">Erroneous BGP route update caused outage<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/what-happened-to-facebook-today\/#False_theory_about_Facebook_outage\" title=\"False theory about Facebook outage\">False theory about Facebook outage<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Happened_to_Facebook_Today\"><\/span>What Happened to Facebook Today?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"what happened to facebook today\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/QL9pAP6.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>What happened to Facebook today? Well, Facebook engineers are having some trouble physically accessing their computer servers and uploading their BGP records to the global Internet. This may be the cause of the outage. But this theory has merit, too. In fact, the last significant outage of Facebook happened in January of 2019.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Facebooks_business_model_is_gathering_private_data_about_users_and_selling_it_to_advertisers\"><\/span>Facebook&#8217;s business model is gathering private data about users and selling it to advertisers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>One of the main ways Facebook makes money is by selling your private data to advertisers. When you visit a website, you&#8217;re likely to see ads for Nike or some other company, and Facebook uses your data to show you ads for those products. That&#8217;s because Facebook uses your cookies to show ads that are tailored to your preferences. Facebook also allows you to customize your ads, which is a major advantage for advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook collects a tremendous amount of data about its users. Facebook makes money by selling access to its News Feed and using that data to serve advertisers. Users never give this information out to companies, and Facebook&#8217;s business model is collecting private data and selling it to advertisers. While Facebook may not directly sell your personal information to advertisers, it does provide them with aggregate analytical data and relevant marketing content.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Facebooks_last_significant_outage_was_in_2019\"><\/span>Facebook&#8217;s last significant outage was in 2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The company has been in the spotlight in recent weeks, following the widespread outages that affected its website and apps. A recent outage, which affected the entire Facebook platform, brought hysteria to the headquarters. While many of these outages are resolved quickly, the most recent outage affected all Facebook spin-offs, lasting more than 24 hours. The disruption slowed down internal tools needed to repair the problems.<\/p>\n<p>Employees and users at the company reported problems accessing their work-issued phones, and not receiving email from people outside the company. Some resorted to other methods to communicate with co-workers, such as the Zoom and Discord chat rooms. Meanwhile, some workers were not able to enter their buildings or conference rooms. Digital badges did not work, and security engineers were unable to access server areas.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Erroneous_BGP_route_update_caused_outage\"><\/span>Erroneous BGP route update caused outage<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>An erroneous BGP route update is to blame for the outage on Facebook today. The protocol allows autonomous systems to advertise their presence on the Internet and exchanges routing information between them. While some commentators speculated about foul play, the cause of the outage today appears to be an error caused by human error. Facebook engineers are using internal logins to access tools that allow them to communicate with each other.<\/p>\n<p>The problem caused the outage on Facebook&#8217;s website and other platforms to go down. Facebook&#8217;s DNS servers and the app itself both crashed and were inaccessible, and many of its apps were also affected. The problem appeared to be caused by an erroneous BGP route update and has been rectified. It appears to be related to a recent DNS rerouting change Facebook made on its own servers.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"False_theory_about_Facebook_outage\"><\/span>False theory about Facebook outage<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The outage that hit Facebook on March 24 was one of the longest in recent memory, but what&#8217;s really going on? It&#8217;s difficult to know whether it affected Facebook&#8217;s physical infrastructure, or whether it was caused by a single point of failure. In any event, it is not uncommon for one component of a network to fail. A single point of failure is hard to identify, but this case is particularly egregious because Facebook&#8217;s access card relies on its internal systems. The crash occurred just before Trump was reinstated as president.<\/p>\n<p>A number of theories are swirling online. One theory claims that Facebook&#8217;s outage was caused by a hacker, and that the outage has something to do with the disclosure of thousands of damaging documents to the Wall Street Journal. Some people also speculated that the timing of the outage seemed suspicious, as it occurred less than 24 hours after Haugen spoke to CBS&#8217; 60 Minutes. Another theory suggests that the outage was caused by a hacker circulating data on the internet for over two weeks. The data could be a ruse to trick people into believing fake news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Happened to Facebook Today? What happened to Facebook today? Well, Facebook engineers are having some trouble physically accessing their computer servers and uploading their BGP records to the global Internet. This may be the cause of the outage. But this theory has merit, too. 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