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#248199 14-Mar-2019 10:02

Facebook (on my PC desktop) doesn't seem to be loading for me today.
I am wondering if Chrome has updated itself again (a process which I don't like, and have been unable to stop).
Now, I only get two or three posts coming up, and NO menu/options on the left at all... Also, clicking on 'messages' up the top brings up a message pane, but no content (just the circling "loading" symbol)

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#2197755 14-Mar-2019 10:03

Its down. All over the news that it and instagram are down. Sometimes breifly works but wont show what I want, just a couple of timeline posts and then cant even scroll down. Notifications are there but wont open etc.

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#2197758 14-Mar-2019 10:04

From Facebooks Twitter - 3 Hours ago
We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

From Facebooks Twitter - 2 Hours ago
We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.

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#2197785 14-Mar-2019 10:27

da5id:

I am wondering if Chrome has updated itself again (a process which I don't like, and have been unable to stop).

Why would you want to stop Chrome from updating itself? Most updates are to fix bugs or security problems, eg just the other day a security flaw was found and Google fixed it quickly but advised everyone to update ASAP as it was a really bad flaw that was being exploited in the wild by bad people.

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#2197788 14-Mar-2019 10:30

richms:

Sometimes breifly works but wont show what I want

Normal behaviour then.

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#2197792 14-Mar-2019 10:34

Lots of issues last couple of days, Gmail was all over the place yesterday as well.... and hardly anyone said a thing. Take away Facebook and watch the world stop.

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#2197802 14-Mar-2019 10:42

Seriously people have been calling 111 about it with police saying please stop calling us about it as we can do nothing about it.

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#2197803 14-Mar-2019 10:46

Facebook is down -

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

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#2197826 14-Mar-2019 11:21

da5id:

Facebook is down -

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

GOOD!

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#2197829 14-Mar-2019 11:24

JaseNZ:

Seriously people have been calling 111 about it with police saying please stop calling us about it as we can do nothing about it.

i thought this was just an American thing...

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#2197830 14-Mar-2019 11:25

I wonder if folks will use this new fangled thing I am hearing of where people talk face to face.

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#2197831 14-Mar-2019 11:26

Nope we can be just as dumb as everybody else.

Canterbury Police posted a warning on Twitter asking Kiwis not to call 111 over the issue: "Unfortunately we cannot do anything about this because, you know, they're based in America and we're the Police."

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#2197898 14-Mar-2019 12:01

I can send WhatsApp text messages, I can't send pictures or GIFs with WhatsApp, neither can my contacts.

So it looks like a pretty widespread meltdown of Facebook's infrastructure

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#2197911 14-Mar-2019 12:10

PolicyGuy:
I can send WhatsApp text messages, I can't send pictures or GIFs with WhatsApp, neither can my contacts.

So it looks like a pretty widespread meltdown of Facebook's infrastructure

Oh snap that explains that then

My phone updated to android 9 this morning and I thought that had broken WhatsApp. Your explanation makes more sense!!!

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#2197925 14-Mar-2019 12:23

So apparently the results of a BGP routing leak.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/facebook-and-instagram-down-in-global-outage/

“At approximately 12:52PM EST on March 13th, 2019, it appears that an accidental BGP routing leak from a European ISP to a major transit ISP, which was then propagated onwards to some peers and/or downstreams of the transit ISP in question, resulted in perceptible disruption of access to some well-known Internet properties for a short interval. While not malicious in nature, such events can prove disruptive on a widespread basis. It is very important that all network operators implement BGP peering best current practices (BCPs), including prefix-lists, max-prefixes, ‘peer-locking’ via AS-PATH filters, RPKI Origin Validation (RFC6811), and other techniques incorporated into the industry Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) detailed at .” -Roland Dobbins, NETSCOUT Principal Engineer

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