October 5, 2021
Here's what exactly caused the six-hour Facebook outage last night
Late last night, popular social media platform Facebook and all its subsidiaries, including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, suffered a global outage that lasted nearly six hours. In the wake of the outage, alongside the memes, reports have surfaced suggesting the outage was caused by something known as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing.
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