[Link] Still reeling from the Great Facebook Blackout of 2021? Turns out Zuck is not the worst offender

Read: 12/11/2021 www.theregister.com

UK-based price comparision and broadband swapping service Uswitch has totted up the figures and come up with a surprising candidate for most outage incidents in 2021.

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[Link] Yes, Mark Zuckerberg Sites Are Down

Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au

It would appear that Messenger, as well as Instagram’s messaging function and other Facebook-owned services, are currently having trouble, as thousands of users report being unable to access the company’s platforms Wednesday.

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[Link] Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest

Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com

Imagine waking up and checking your phone after several evenings of mass demonstrations. You try scrolling through your Twitter feed, but it won’t load. You turn your router off and on to no avail. You try texting a friend to complain, but the message fails to send. Frustrated, you walk outside.

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[Link] Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp hit by outage

Read: 4/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Facebook’s network of services including Instagram and WhatsApp has been hit by an outage in multiple countries including UK and the US, as the company admitted users were having “trouble accessing our apps”.

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