{"id":7470,"date":"2021-10-05T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2021-10-05T12:06:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:06:45","slug":"facebook-will-be-the-beginning-of-the-fall-of-the-social-media-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/facebook-will-be-the-beginning-of-the-fall-of-the-social-media-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook: Will it be the beginning of the fall of the social networking giant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Facebook-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Could this be the beginning of the fall of social media giant Facebook?\" class=\"wp-image-7476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Facebook-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Facebook-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Facebook-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Facebook-16x10.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Facebook-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Facebook-696x435.jpg 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Facebook-1068x668.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Slowly, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp apps are recovering from one of the worst crashes in their recent history, for which they were completely inaccessible for six hours for its approximately three and a half billion users worldwide.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.fb.com\/2021\/10\/04\/networking-traffic\/outage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">comunicado<\/a>The company stated that \"configuration changes to the backbone routers, which coordinate network traffic between data centers, created problems that disrupted this communication. This disruption in network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\"We want to make it clear that there was no malicious activity behind this outage; its root cause was a faulty configuration change on our part. We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime,\" the firm added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that on Twitter an alleged Anonymous account wrote that \"the world is a better place without Facebook and Instagram\", so users of the micro blog began to award them a possible hacking that caused this problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The world is already a better place without Facebook and Instagram. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Anonymous?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Anonymous<\/a><\/p>- Anonymous (@YourAnonOne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YourAnonOne\/status\/1445087710130188309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bad timing for Facebook service failure<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The fall of the Facebook service came at one of the worst moments for the company, since on September 13, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-facebook-files-11631713039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> revealed that the company was aware of a wide range of problems with its products, including mental health damage in teenagers and misinformation about the Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added to this are the statements of former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, who said Sunday night on CBS's \"60 Minutes\" that the company always prioritized the pursuit of profit over the public interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"_Lx5VmAdZSI\"><iframe title=\"Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: The 60 Minutes Interview\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Lx5VmAdZSI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\"What I saw at Facebook over and over again was that there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook, and Facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests, like making more money,\" Haugen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Tuesday, Haugen will testify in front of the Senate subcommittee, chaired by Democrat Richard Blumenthal, so lawmakers will get to hear firsthand these allegations and have the opportunity to question her about what she experienced inside Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A million-dollar fall for Facebook<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This Monday, the New York Stock Exchange saw a massive sell-off in Facebook shares, due to the disruption of services, as well as statements in recent days, causing the social networking giant's shares to fall 4.9 percent, accumulating a 15 percent drop since mid-September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, it is estimated that Monday's fall represented a loss of almost 6 billion dollars for Facebook, while since September 13, the company has accumulated a loss of 19 billion dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minutes after Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger began to be restored; Mark Zuckerberg expressed through his Facebook account that the social networks and instant messaging apps were coming back online, while apologizing for the failures in the platforms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Facebook, Instagram WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today. I know how much you depend on our services to keep you connected to the people you love,\" Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-gestor-del-servicio wp-block-embed-gestor-del-servicio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/posts\/10113957526871061\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You may be interested in: <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/metaverse-the-sound-that-facebook-wants-to-make-reality-2\/\">Metaverse, the dream that Facebook wants to make reality<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lentamente, las aplicaciones de Facebook, Instagram y WhatsApp se recuperan de una de las peores ca\u00eddas de su historia reciente, por la cual estuvieron completamente inaccesibles durante seis horas para sus aproximadamente tres mil 500 millones de usuarios en todo el mundo.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; De acuerdo con un comunicado, la compa\u00f1\u00eda declar\u00f3 que \u00ablos cambios de configuraci\u00f3n [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7481,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7470\/revisions\/7481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}