Tue. 10/05 - The Facebook Outage Revealed a Grim Reality
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the cotkey ride home for tuesday October 5th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today. |
| 0:42.3 | Are we prepared to reckon with how much of the world came to a stop when Facebook went down yesterday? |
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| 1:01.8 | announced thus far produced groundbreaking work using everything from spin glass to chili |
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| 1:19.3 | So as you are likely aware, and if you're not, I'm very envious of your day-to-day life. |
| 1:24.3 | But yesterday, Facebook and all of its associated apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram were all down for about six hours, the longest outage since that |
| 1:29.8 | full day outage in 2019. Brian McCullough over at our sister show, the tech meme ride home, |
| 1:36.1 | covered why this happened technically. So if you're curious, definitely go give a listen to today's |
| 1:41.4 | episode. But I want to talk more about the social, cultural, and |
| 1:45.2 | economic ramifications of the outage. First, some basics of what happened, quoting NPR. |
| 1:51.8 | An update to Facebook's routers that coordinate network traffic went wrong, sending a wave |
| 1:56.5 | of disruptions rippling through its systems. As a result, all things Facebook were effectively |
| 2:01.5 | shut down worldwide, end quote. And it wasn't just Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus. |
| 2:08.5 | If you use that login with Facebook feature on third-party sites, that wasn't working yesterday either. |
| 2:14.0 | And Facebook's internal communication systems for employees were also inaccessible, |
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