Friday, October 8, 2021
This Friday evening, the Facebook managers acknowledged that some of their companies, in particular the social network themselves and Instagram, again had operational problems and that some of their users suffered around the world, without any more about the scope of these shortcomings or completing the number of customers who could not use their services normally. “We work for things to be normal again as quickly as possible and to apologize for the inconvenience,” said a company spokesperson.
“We are aware that some people and companies have problems access to Facebook products,” said the same source at AFP, but without giving details about the type of technical problems or an approach to the time they can be solved. The first reports regarding this could be seen in other social networks after nine o’clock in the morning (Spanish era) and the company owned by Mark Zuckerberg gave a first reaction about an hour later.
«What about Instagram? “Said on Twitter one of those thousands of users who have been affected with a message with an image of the cartoon figure Bart Simpson, sitting in a corner in apparent punishment. “Even four days have not passed and it has already fallen again,” he added to express his frustration, while others join his reactions “Again!!!”… and it is that last Monday all social networks that were checked by Zuckerberg, serious operational problems that prevented them from providing their services for more than six hours with hundreds of millions of users.
So the company said that the interruption of that day was caused by “configuration changes” in the ‘routers’ that coordinate network traffic between data centers. This time, however, Facebook Fuentes pointed to Reuters that the problems were not related to those of last Monday and that they were due to “a statement in a change in the configurations”, but without adding more about it.
What they did confirmed that the deviations in the services not only influenced the parent company, but also Also to other subsidiaries such as WhatsApp and InstagramIn addition to the specific Facebook applications such as Messenger and Workplace. This was also noted from the Downector Internet Fout Tracker, which showed peaks in the reports of access problems to these networks and digital tools.
Eliminate Facebook?
And while technical problems seem to continue to exist on Facebook and their business satellites, The prestigious American magazine ‘Time’ has unleashed a large international controversy with his last coverIn which about Mark Zuckerberg’s photo asks whether this company that monopolizes three of the world’s largest social networks and that ‘controls our communication’.
Similarly, investigations into this emporium are still open through competition authorities on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. In that sense, a former Facebook employee announced last Tuesday in a formal explanation for the US Senate an alleged offensive behavior by the aforementioned company towards its users and not precisely in isolated cases.
Frances Haugen, computer engineer specialized in managing algorithms to sell products, testified in the Capitol after he had leaked to the authorities and the newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’ also a huge file of internal Facebook surveys that one of the most serious crises of the company has fed. On this parliamentary forum he confirmed that “their products (those of the social network and their other societies) harm children, fell the division and weaken our democracy.” “It is necessary that the congress acts,” he said; This crisis will not be solved without your help.
