Facebook's Status: It's Complicated

What A Day

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4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were offline for six hours yesterday in what’s been called the most sustained and the largest outage for the company in recent memory. It came a day after CBS aired an interview with a Facebook whistleblower, and on the same day the company filed a dismissal in an anti-trust lawsuit by the federal government. The latest Supreme Court term began, yesterday, and there is a lot to keep our eyes on with the current 6-3 conservative majority. The court is going to hear arguably the most important 2nd Amendment case since at least 2008, possibly the most impactful reproductive health ruling in decades, and more. And in headlines: union members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees voted to authorize a strike, Senate Republicans vow to not raise the country’s debt ceiling, and Clint Eastwood won a $6.1 million lawsuit against a CBD company. Show Notes: Washington Post: “Facebook apps coming back online after widespread outage” – https://wapo.st/3BcQ3Wu Wall Street Journal: “The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It” – https://on.wsj.com/3AcO8zE Balls and Strikes – https://ballsandstrikes.org/ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, October 5th. I'm Gideon Reznik.
0:09.3	And I'm Josie Defi Rice. And this is What a Day.
0:12.6	Where we didn't even notice the Facebook outage because we were busy doing something
0:16.1	called living in the present.
0:18.8	Yeah, I was on a beautiful mountain so I was completely unplugged all time.
0:23.4	Please clap.
0:32.6	On today's show, we're going to highlight some of the most important cases that are headed to
0:35.7	the Supreme Court, plus the Union for many film and TV crew members overwhelmingly said yes
0:41.5	to authorizing a strike. But first, yesterday was an insane day for Facebook,
0:46.7	following an already tumultuous few weeks or months or years, depending on how you're measuring it.
0:51.9	But Jake, I want to start with this because I'm trying to fire up Facebook here on my phone
0:55.7	and no dice. So what's up with this outage?
0:58.7	I love that. Sounds like my parents.
1:03.0	Trying to use their phones. That's a one MSNBC anchor was handling this big Facebook outage
1:07.5	across the globe for Much of Monday. And this hour's long outage came after weeks of revelations
1:12.3	about Facebook from a series of Wall Street Journal stories. Some of that we've talked about
1:16.2	on the show before. But Gideon, let's start trying to piece together this train wreck with the
1:20.3	outage first. So what do we know as a record time on day night?
1:23.9	Train wreck is definitely right. So some of the first reported issues with Facebook and its apps,
1:29.0	namely Instagram and WhatsApp were around 11.40 AM Eastern. And it took about six hours actually
1:35.2	for the sites to even begin to start coming back online. The Washington Post referred to it as the
1:40.4	most sustained and the largest outage for Facebook and at very least recent memory. And beyond the
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