Further, the report also said that the outage could have been caused due to sabotage by an insider, calling the situation “theoretically possible.”Īlso watch | Whatsapp, Facebook, Insta down for hours in global outage Meme fest on Twitter We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can.” The error message about DNS was displayed on Instagram’s website too.Īn internal configuration error could have been the likely reason behind the outage, news agency Reuters said in a report citing security experts who were aware of the situation. The error message on Facebook’s website initially showed an issue with the Domain Name System (DNS) and later it said, “Sorry, something went wrong. Meanwhile, the exact reason behind the outage is not clearly known yet and the platforms themselves have not mentioned it too. The company has been the centre of a major controversy following a report by the Wall Street Journal, which said that the company did not act upon the findings of its own research teams about the ill effects its platforms had on young users, especially teenage girls.Īlso read | ‘Hello literally everyone’: Twitter after Facebook, WhatsApp, IG global outage However, the outage also comes at a time that has been particularly difficult for Facebook. All three services have acknowledged the situation on Twitter and assured that they were working on solving the issues and they would be restored as soon as possible. Popular social media platform Facebook and the company’s messaging service WhatsApp Messenger and its image and video sharing platform Instagram suffered a massive outage across the world on Monday night (IST).