Well, you don’t see this every day: Coding sleuths, currently occupying the Twitter space due to the outages on other social media sites, believe they have uncovered something devastating in regards to Facebook and its master code.
Is Facebook still down? WhatsApp, Instagram also offline
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of people as users flocked to other networks to sound off.
Facebook has not communicated on the possible cause of the outage, but cyber security experts noted they had found signs that online routes that lead people to the social giant were disrupted. However, some amateur analysts have taken a deep dive into the status of the site’s master code – and it appears to have been altered dramatically.
Could Facebook be gone forever? Rumours swirl on Monday
In fact, according to some onlookers, the damage *might* be enough to take Facebook offline for good.
To summarize this for you all:
As of right now, according to the server errors on Facebook’s code, Facebook currently does not even exist on the World Wide Web.
Nameservers have been completely deleted from the Internet. The Domain is now for sale (for around €73) pic.twitter.com/WGjlcvw7O2
— Mikael Hagenbo (@Haggenbagge) October 4, 2021
Holy crap, Facebook isn't just down, it's gone.
This error means that the URL is no longer pointing to Facebook's Servers. Could be a server migration gone bad, but I don't think that Facebook would be touching their DNS records willy-nilly. pic.twitter.com/owtQzG09vM
— Every SpongeBob Frame In Order (@SbFramesInOrder) October 4, 2021
So, someone deleted large sections of the routing….that doesn't mean Facebook is just down, from the looks of it….that means Facebook is GONE. pic.twitter.com/OCZWPD2okw
— The Academy (@BenjaminEnfield) October 4, 2021
A nightmare week for Mark Zuckerberg
Things have certainly gone from bad to worse for Facebook, which appears to be lurking from crisis to crisis.
Frances Haugen, a 37-year-old data scientist from Iowa, has worked for companies including Google and Pinterest – but said in an interview with CBS news show 60 Minutes that Facebook was “substantially worse” than anything she had seen before. The outage comes a day after a whistleblower went on US television to reveal her identity.
This, after she leaked a trove of documents alleging the social media giant knew its products were fueling hate and harming children’s mental health. US lawmakers and The Wall Street Journal have also recently reported how Facebook knew its products, including Instagram, were harming young girls, especially around body image.
Has the ‘master code’ been wiped?
Well, we know that all coders have ‘revisions of revisions’. The idea that the master code has gone forever is hard to fathom. And yet, it’s not an impossibility. This is the scale of the disruption we are dealing with, here.
Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone issued an apology on Twitter, acknowledging the severity of what’s happening:
“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologise for any inconvenience.”
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