In addition to that, some social media platforms’ websites were also affected by this major outage. The prompts such as “Error 503 Service Unavailable” and “connection failure” were appearing on the websites of CNN, the Financial Times, The Guardian, and France’s Le Monde newspaper. The White House website was also prompting an error message but was available again after some time. The gov.uk websites remained inaccessible till around 1030 GMT. Some other major news websites like BBC, New York Times, and Bloomberg News were also temporarily unavailable but were fixed after some time.
Top News & Media Websites Hit By a Global Internet Outage: Report
According to the cloud computing service Fastly, it was investigating “the potential impact to performance with our CDN services.” According to some information on the company’s website, the majority of the Fastly’s coverage areas were facing “Degraded Performance. Stay tuned with us for further updates! Check out? ‘Instagram Down again?’: Memes flood Twitter After Some Face Outage
