{"id":275090,"date":"2021-10-04T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=275090"},"modified":"2021-10-04T15:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:21:52","slug":"facebook-whatsapp-and-instagram-go-offline-for-millions-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/facebook-whatsapp-and-instagram-go-offline-for-millions-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram go offline for millions around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-205785 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/facebook.jpg 540w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/facebook-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beginning from approximately 11:45am EST Facebook and the its social media network including Whatsapp, Instagram and Occulus VR went offline around the world for millions. Indications are not clear at this time as to the cause of the network failure and its full extent.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Yahoo news article online tracking tools indicate that the issue may be caused by a problem with its Domain Name System (DNS), or the server that helps create a website&#8217;s IP address.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has acknowledged the problem and issued a response via twitter:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We\u2019re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,&#8221; Facebook communications executive Andy Stone tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/3790253\/whatsapp-facebook-and-instagram-down-thousands-users-apps\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook and the network of social media companies it owns, including Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR, suddenly went offline Monday.","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":205785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,77,235,6,9,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-international-news","category-news","category-social-media"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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