Facebook and Instagram are finally recovering from one of the worst outages in their history | BISouthAfrica
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Below is a graph from DownDetector, a website where people can report outages of popular internet services, as of 4 a.m. ET.Facebook has not commented on the reason for the collapse of its services, but has made clear it was not the result of a Distributed Denial of Service cyber attack, as had been speculated.
"We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack," the company said on Wednesday. A source told the broadcaster:"We are racing to spin up new machines as others go down. Mostly resolved...but it takes time."This story is developing.
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