“I know it’s frustrating to see the good work we do get mischaracterized, especially for those of you who are making important contributions across safety, integrity, research and product. At the most basic level, I think most of us just don’t recognize the false picture of the company that is being painted.” It’s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives. We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health. “I’m sure many of you have found the recent coverage hard to read because it just doesn’t reflect the company we know. “At the heart of these accusations is this idea that we prioritise profit over safety and well-being. A six-hour global outage of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp was caused by a problem with the company’s domain name system, multiple news outlets reported.
Mr Zuckerberg accused Ms Haugen of painting a false picture of the company, adding that many of her claims “don’t make sense”. Many of the company’s internal research reports indicated that Facebook has a “serious negative harm on a significant portion of teenagers and children,” Ms Haugen told Congress, adding that its amplification algorithms can lead children from innocuous topics such as healthy recipes to content that promotes anorexia “over a very short period of time”.
“The deeper concern with an outage like this isn’t how many people switch to competitive services or how much money we lose, but what it means for the people who rely on our services to communicate with loved ones, run their businesses, or support their communities,” he said in a note to staff shared publicly on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, said the outage had been a “reminder of how much our work matters to people”. “From here on out, our job is to strengthen our testing, drills, and overall resilience to make sure events like this happen as rarely as possible.” “Every failure like this is an opportunity to learn and get better, and there’s plenty for us to learn from this one,” he added.
#WHATSAPP DOWN REASON UPDATE#
Tags: WhatsApp WhatsApp Down WhatsApp Outage Meta WhatsApp Fix Technology News WhatsApp Update Follow Technology News on abp LIVE for more latest stories and trending topics.Once the engineers finally confirmed the issue and brought the backbone back online, the engineers had to be cautious to avoid overloading the systems with a colossal surge in traffic.Įxperience from extensive ‘storm drills’ meant Facebook was confident it could restore the systems and bring the services back online “relatively quickly”, Mr Janardhan continued. Subscribe And Follow ABP Live On Telegram: Published at : 11:16 AM (IST) The most popular messaging platform, which has nearly 500 million users in the country, received another record 4,377 complaint reports in April in the country, and the records "actioned" were 234. Between April 1 and April 30, 7,452,500 WhatsApp accounts were banned and 2,469,700 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users, the company said in its monthly compliance report.
WhatsApp banned a record of over 74 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of April, in accordance with the new IT Rules 2021, the Meta-owned company announced on Thursday. As the company has not disclosed any specific reasons for the outage, users can only speculate about the underlying cause. WhatsApp has since restored its services, allowing users to resume their regular activities on the platform. Furthermore, in October of the previous year, a global outage occurred, affecting users in India and lasting for more than two hours. In January of this year, a server-side issue prevented users from updating their privacy settings globally on iOS. This is not the first time WhatsApp has faced such challenges.
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