{"id":201598,"date":"2024-12-14T03:16:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T09:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-hit-by-massive-worldwide-outage"},"modified":"2024-12-14T03:16:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T09:16:59","slug":"facebook-instagram-whatsapp-hit-by-massive-worldwide-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-hit-by-massive-worldwide-outage","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by massive worldwide outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-hit-by-massive-worldwide-outage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp suffered a massive worldwide Wednesday afternoon, with services impacted in varying degrees based on user\u2019s region.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DownDetector<\/a>, the outage occurred at approximately 12:40 PM ET, with many users unable to access the services through the websites and apps or send messages through WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>When users attempted to access Facebook, they were greeted with errors stating, \u201cSorry, something went wrong. We\u2019re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp suffered a massive worldwide Wednesday afternoon, with services impacted in varying degrees based on user\u2019s region. According to DownDetector, the outage occurred at approximately 12:40 PM ET, with many users unable to access the services through the websites and apps or send messages through WhatsApp. When users attempted to access [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}