Facebook was down for several hours, strange posters appeared in the news feed
No information has been received yet about why Facebook has stopped. Not only this, Facebook has not yet accepted the downtime and there has been no official statement from the company.
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Facebook today (August 24) is down worldwide. Thousands of users in the US and England have reported this error in Facebook's News Feed. Outage detection website Down Detector has also confirmed the shutdown of the services of the social media platform. According to the downdetector, this problem started around 11 am and peaked till around 1 pm. According to the website, 60% of users reported multiple problems on the Facebook app. While 26% of the users reported facing problems on the Facebook feed and 14% of the users on the website. Even before this, in October, all the platforms of Meta, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were suddenly down.
No information has been received yet about why Facebook has stopped. Not only this, Facebook has not yet accepted the downtime and there has been no official statement from the company. According to downdetector, the app is working fine for most of the users. But this problem is still affecting the users. Also, users have not received any update or fix from Facebook. Facebook accounts of celebrities such as American star rapper Eminem, Billie Eilish and singer Taylor Swift have also been affected by the disturbance.
43% of Facebook app users complained about this glitch and service outage, while 40% of users have filed complaints regarding News Feed. At the same time, 16% of the users have complained about the disturbance in the website. The Facebook wall of celebs was flooded with messages and memes from their fans due to the Facebook glitch. It includes celebrities like Deepika Padukone, Tom Cruise, Rihanna, Sachin Tendulkar and Gordon Ramsay. Many users believe that a cyber attack could be behind the spammed celebrity posts.
