Regarding the internal failures, Instagram head Adam Mosseri tweeted that it feels like a "snow day." The stricken content-delivery company in that case, Fastly, blamed a software bug triggered by a customer who changed a setting.įor hours, Facebook's only public comment was a tweet in which it acknowledged that "some people are having trouble accessing (the) Facebook app" and said it was working on restoring access. The last major internet outage, which knocked many of the world's top websites offline in June, lasted less than an hour. "This is epic," said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for Kentik Inc, a network monitoring and intelligence company. While such centralization "gives the company a unified view of users' internet usage habits," Netblocks said, it also makes the services vulnerable to single points of failure. London-based internet monitoring firm Netblocks noted that the company's plans to integrate the technology behind its platforms - announced in 2019 - had raised concerns about the risks of such a move. Young women have played a pivotal role in the demonstrations that first focused on the strict Islamic dress codes in Iran, which are deeply unpopular among large sections of the population.The outage didn't exactly bolster Facebook's argument that its size and clout provide important benefits for the world. They underlined that "the end of the Islamic Republic's system of misogyny would constitute a global turning point in the long march towards a world where women are treated equally". The global names - including Nobel Prize-winning Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and actor Richard Gere - emphasised their support of Iranian women.
Published by the US-based NGO Freedom House, they claimed: "the triumph of freedom in Iran could revive the global wave of democratization that was so strong at the end of the 20th century, but which has weakened in the face of the counter-authoritarian attack". On Wednesday, 480 international figures - from Nobel laureates to actors - issued a statement stressing that protesters in Iran "deserve unwavering support from the lovers of freedom in the world". 'Signs of cracks' within Iran's government as protests endure.
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