Rumours Circulating on Social Media Regarding Mysterious Suspension of Facebook, Whatsapp

Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) October 4, 2021

UPDATE: Facebook , Insta, WhatsApp Outage

• 4 hours, ongoing
• NYT: unlikely a hack; FB employees unable to enter building in a.m
• Servers likely behind problem: CTO
• Facebook stocks
• Zuckerberg lost $7 billion: Bloomberg
• Global loss > $160 million/hr: @netblocks

— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) October 4, 2021

Mysterious silence by the giant tech forums @WhatsApp @Facebook @instagram over WHY this global outage since more than three hours by now while unconfirmed news start circulating of FB being hacked and users data sold on dark web. Transparency. Users right to know.

— Gharidah Farooqi (@GFarooqi) October 4, 2021

Facebook employees reportedly can't enter building to deal with the service outage as their door access badges aren't working: @nytimes pic.twitter.com/YUTuiBam51

— Daily News Egypt (@DailyNewsEgypt) October 4, 2021

So, someone deleted large sections of the routing....that doesn't mean Facebook is just down, from the looks of it....that means Facebook is GONE. pic.twitter.com/OCZWPD2okw

— The Academy (@BenjaminEnfield) October 4, 2021