The outage didn’t exactly bolster Facebook’s argument that its size and clout provide important benefits for the world. Nick Clegg, the company’s vice president of policy and public affairs, wrote to Facebook employees in a memo Friday that “social media has had a big impact on society in recent years, and Facebook is often a place where much of this debate plays out.” Facebook has tried to play down their impact. The Journal’s stories, called “The Facebook Files,” painted a picture of a company focused on growth and its own interests over the public good. It also showed that the company was aware that Instagram can harm teenage girls’ mental health.
Haugen had also anonymously filed complaints with federal law enforcement alleging Facebook’s own research shows how it magnifies hate and misinformation and leads to increased polarization. Haugen went public on CBS’s 60 Minutes program Sunday and is scheduled to testify before a Senate subcommittee Tuesday. WhatsApp users faced a similar issue twice in January 2019.Facebook was already in the throes of a separate major crisis after whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, provided The Wall Street Journal with internal documents that exposed the company’s awareness of harms caused by its products and decisions. This is not the first time that the messaging app has stopped working. However, a short while later the platform resumed functioning. #whatsappdown soon began to trend on Twitter.ĭ had users from Sri Lanka, Peru, London, New Delhi, New York, Brazi, Netherlands, Germany, Egypt, Colmbia, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Romania, Trinidad & Tobago, Ireland etc reporting the outage.
“I’m coming onto Twitter to confirm if whatsapp is truly down #WhatsApp,” wrote another user. “Has anyone Noticed that WhatsApp is down… Or is it just me…” wrote a user on Twitter.Īnother tweeted, “WhatsApp is down even after uninstalling, reinstalling and rebooting my phone.” On various social media including Twitter, users took to post about the problems they were facing with the popular cross-platform messaging application. The reason behind the snag is yet to be announced by the company. Many of the over 1.5 billion users, both on Android and iOS, were unable to log into the app. Most users (72 per cent) reported issues of connection, sending or receiving messages as well as log-in problems. New Delhi: Messaging app WhatsApp saw an outage in India and across the world in the early hours of Wednesday with thousands of users reporting glitches in the popular end to end encrypted application.Īccording to Down Detector, which monitors and offers real-time status and outage information, users started reporting problems since 1:32 AM.
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