{"id":50791,"date":"2021-10-04T20:13:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=50791"},"modified":"2021-10-04T20:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:14:06","slug":"facebook-and-instagram-back-after-longest-worldwide-outage-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/10\/facebook-and-instagram-back-after-longest-worldwide-outage-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Instagram back after longest worldwide outage ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s&nbsp;platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, suffered from&nbsp;widespread outages&nbsp;Monday. The global outages continued for about 7 hours. Facebook and Instagram appear to have recovered as of Monday afternoon around 6 p.m. Eastern.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"918\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Facebook-and-Instagram.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50792\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At 6:33 p.m., the company confirmed that its services had been restored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we&#8217;re sorry. We\u2019ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us,&#8221; the official Facebook Twitter feed announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook spokesman Andy Stone also tweeted an apology, adding that he was &#8220;happy to report [Facebook&#8217;s services] are coming back online now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DownDetecter<\/a>, thousands of users across the globe began reporting outages on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and Oculus around 11 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s&nbsp;platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, suffered from&nbsp;widespread outages&nbsp;Monday. The global outages continued for about 7 hours. Facebook and Instagram appear to have recovered as of Monday afternoon around 6 p.m.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[752],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50793,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50791\/revisions\/50793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}