<story><title>What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&amp;gt; The outage has pretty much buried that story,&lt;p&gt;Strongly disagree. The outage has millions of people entering &amp;quot;Facebook&amp;quot; into their search engines. Most engines will conveniently put related news at the top of the search results page. The most recent and widespread Facebook-related news story is about the whistleblower.&lt;p&gt;Plus everyone has a lot of spare time to read the article now that Facebook and Instagram are down.&lt;p&gt;The outage didn&amp;#x27;t bury the story. It amplified it. Any suggestions that Facebook did this on purpose don&amp;#x27;t even make sense.</text></item><item><author>optimalsolver</author><text>I know this is tinhat territory, but it&amp;#x27;s weird this happens right after the FB whistleblower interview on 60 minutes.&lt;p&gt;The outage has pretty much buried that story, and  perhaps more importantly, stopped its spread on FB networks.&lt;p&gt;That said, I can&amp;#x27;t see how FB managers and engineers would actually agree to carry out something like this intentionally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwiswell</author><text>&amp;gt; recent and widespread Facebook-related news story is about the whistleblower&lt;p&gt;With respect I am pretty sure that the most recent and widespread Facebook-related news story is this one.&lt;p&gt;Holistically I agree that this isn&amp;#x27;t the kind of distraction Facebook wants, although it tickles me to imagine Mark in the datacenter going Rambo with a pair of wire cutters.</text></comment>
<story><title>What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?</title><url>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&amp;gt; The outage has pretty much buried that story,&lt;p&gt;Strongly disagree. The outage has millions of people entering &amp;quot;Facebook&amp;quot; into their search engines. Most engines will conveniently put related news at the top of the search results page. The most recent and widespread Facebook-related news story is about the whistleblower.&lt;p&gt;Plus everyone has a lot of spare time to read the article now that Facebook and Instagram are down.&lt;p&gt;The outage didn&amp;#x27;t bury the story. It amplified it. Any suggestions that Facebook did this on purpose don&amp;#x27;t even make sense.</text></item><item><author>optimalsolver</author><text>I know this is tinhat territory, but it&amp;#x27;s weird this happens right after the FB whistleblower interview on 60 minutes.&lt;p&gt;The outage has pretty much buried that story, and  perhaps more importantly, stopped its spread on FB networks.&lt;p&gt;That said, I can&amp;#x27;t see how FB managers and engineers would actually agree to carry out something like this intentionally.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>optimalsolver</author><text>Anecdotal, but I just tried Google + Bing and topline Facebook-related news is all about the outage.</text></comment>