Original article: Many users have been having difficulty overseas chinese in canada data connecting to Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp since the end of the day on Wednesday, March 13. These services, which all belong to Facebook, were experiencing different types of malfunctions – error messages, content not being displayed, inability to send messages, etc. The problems did not affect all users and differed depending on the service.
"We are seeing some users having difficulty accessing the Facebook family of applications , " Facebook said on a rival network, Twitter. "We are working on the problem in order to resolve it as soon as possible." The company did not provide further details on this "partial" outage , which began on Wednesday between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., but was keen to point out that it was not linked to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. This type of common computer attack consists of saturating a server with requests in order to make it inaccessible.
On Wednesday evening, Instagram announced that it was back up , but on Thursday morning, Facebook's website listing technical problems on the platform indicated that the outage was still ongoing. In France, however, the difficulties seemed rarer than the day before.
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