Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp experience worldwide outage
The Facebook testimony occurred a day after Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all experienced a worldwide shutdown. To learn more about what happened and talk about concerns over how dependent the world seems to be on Facebook, Arizona PBS spoke to an ASU information systems expert.
The Facebook testimony occurred a day after Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all experienced a worldwide shutdown. To learn more about what happened and talk about concerns over how dependent the world seems to be on Facebook, Arizona PBS spoke to an ASU information systems expert.
In this story aired Oct. 5, 2021, on Arizona PBS:
Speculation is that because of the whole work-from-home arrangement the people who could fix that issue were not on sight to physically access the servers and configure them properly.
– Victor Benjamin, assistant professor of information systems
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