Social Media Giant Facebook And Instagram And Whatsapp Services Have been Hit By Widespread Outages Facebook says It’s Aware Some People Are Having trouble Accessing.
The Platforms But hasn’t Said What’s Behind The Problemwell Let’s Speak To Ian Share About Thishe’s The Editor At Large At The Consumertech Site Cnet And He’s Joining Us from Maryland In The U.s Very Good To have You With Ustell Us About What.
This All Is About Imean Facebook Says Some Users But This looks Like A Global Outage Howwidespread Is Itwellit’s Hard To Tell I Will Say That When we’re Talking About Facebook More Than half.
The World’s Online Population Issuing It Every Month So You Know A Few users Can Be A Lot Of Users But This Isthis Is A Signif Look These Theseoutages Happen From Time To Time Rightsometimes.
They Are The Result Of Bad behavior Hacks Or Something Other Timesit’s Someone Who Pushed The Wrong Button and This Time It Seems Like It May Have been Not A Bad Thing It May Have Beensomeone Pushed.
The Wrong Button Or Some computer Is Misconfigured And That’llget Fixed At Some Point But This Hasbeen Going On For Over An Hour Now Which is Long Yeahit Is Long And Look These Things Tend Tobe Unusual Because Facebook In particular Really Prides
Itself On working Really Well You Know Over The last I’d Say Five Ten Years We’ve Seengoogle Apple Facebook Amazon All Of Themhave Been Relatively Stable Before That Was Pretty It Was Pretty Normal For the Internet To Kind Of Go In And Outand Some Websites Not To Work you Can Look Up The Twitter Fail Whale You Remember That Period Of Internet history.
So You Know This Stuff Didhappen But It Is Unusual More So Now And so Yeah Having It Out For An Hour Is definitely Uh Noteworthyand This Is Coming In A Day After A whistleblower Revealed.
That The Companyfacebook Prioritized Profit Over Publicgoodand We Know That Political Pressure Hasbeen Building On The Company We’re Notspeculating Of Course Here Whether there’s A Link Between That And What’shappening,
Today But I’m Wondering You know With All This Bad Publicity Right now For Facebook And This Politicalpressure Can Can The Company Withstandall This Bad Pressure And Bad Publicitywhat.
Do They Have To Do To Change Thingsaroundyeah I Mean Look I Think That They Are under A Really A Lot Of Pressure From all Over The Place Right Not Justtheir Critics And People Like Me In silicon Valley But Also You’ve Got The regulators In Washington.
All Over The World And Look It’s Very Clear Thatfacebook Needs To Really Reckon With what They Have Doneboth In Terms Of Actually Allowing Bad behavior To Continue Happening On Their platform,
And How They Haven’t Beenhonest And Forthright With You And Me and Everybody Else About How Bad The Situation Is And That That Is A Really big Problem How Bad Is The Situation Mean It’s Very Clear That Uh Thatharassment,
And Uh The Spread Ofdisinformation Undermining Democracy All these Things Have Been Happening On Awider Scale Than Facebook Has Told Us about We Don’t Have Access To Any Data that Actually Tells Us All We Have Arelittle Slivers Of Information Right Soit Is A Big Big Problem,
And The Company has Shown Internally That They Know Thatrightthat’s What The Whistleblower Of Courserevealed Uh In Umin Reports That We Read About yesterday You Know When You See All Thisinyou Wonder Of Course.
If You Know One Company Facebook Owningmultiple Major Online Platforms Is a Good Idea What Can Regulators Do Aboutthisyeah I Mean Look There’s Been Effortsinside Of Washington To Talk about Aboutwhether Or Not Facebook,
Should Be Forced to Be Broken Up You May Remember That 20years Ago That Conversation Washappening Around Microsoft And The Way that Turned Out Was That Even Thoughmicrosoft Was Found To Be A Monopoly
All the Government Did Was Slap It On Thewrist And Allow It To Continue Beingmicrosoft So I Don’t Know Exactly How far The Us Government’s Going To Be willing To Go Here But I Am Curious To see Whether This Appetite For Reigningin The Tech Industry Will Be Any different From What It Was A Couple Of Decades Ago.
