Possibly. Don’t want to speculate, but that was suggested by more than one person this morning. Random people from all over the globe.

Naw. It’s back up.

And people of the world, unite! And relax on social media. All is well : ) Never thought I would ever see a universal wig out like that.

I speculated that on a different thread. It seems like it’s possible.
People were unable to share links about it today, and a lot of people went through withdrawal today. End result? Keep Facebook no matter what.

No, it is not related.

We know why it was down. That’s obvious. They were all very busy at Facebook deleting incriminating evidence.

I was wondering the same thing. Seems very coincidental.

I think that @omtatsat might be on to something.

The World Economic Forum seems to be really good at holding exercises that actually happen shortly after.

https://www.weforum.org/projects/cyber-polygon

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201

They would not need to take down their whole system to delete data. Most likely they tried to do something like update the firmware or push an update to their Ethernet transport backbone equipment and it did not go well. That can take down a whole world-wide network.

Deleting data doesn’t require turning off the system… but keeping people from seeing something you just realized is on your site in many places, many of which you don’t know about, would.

Though if it were something like that, probably a significant number of users would also know about it, unless they caught it really quickly, like possibly, yes, a whistleblower at Facebook dumping their shit to the site. Look what Clive just did! Press the Panic Button! (maybe…)

Whistleblower Assange-a bad person who threatens the US govt.-lock him up!
Whistleblowerin Haugen- no threat to the US govt-put her on a pedestal!

It could just be that the Pandora Papers were the current buzz, and Facebook realizes that it was amplifying that story by remaining online, and that it might be worth more than $6 billion to Zuckerberg etc to de-amplify that story for a day.

And/or it was considered worth more than $6 billion to other people involved in the Pandora Papers, and they offered Zuckerberg compensation he wanted more than a temporary $6 billion setback in his continuous Facebook income.

@omtatsat Tsk tsk, it’s not nice to tell Uncle Sam’s myriad secrets. Face Book, meh.

@omtstat
Not only is she not a threat to the government, she is a valuable asset on their quest for social media censorship.

Facebook has been working to censor out conservative voices for some time now. The whistleblower is actually saying they aren’t doing enough and that they know they aren’t doing enough to silence those conservative voices.

If the outage time at Facebook was related, it might only be related through the idea that the whistleblower had some information that might have shown their efforts at censorship which they would have to block from ever seeing the light of day.

Well, they aren’t doing a very good job of censoring out conservative voices! In fact, they suck at it!