KAMPALA – Facebook Inc’s app and its photo-sharing app Instagram is currently down for thousands of users, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Downdetector showed there were more than 20,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and Instagram on Monday October 4, 2021.
The social-media giant’s instant messaging platform WhatsApp was also down for over 14,000 users, while Messenger was down for nearly 3,000 users.
Downdetector only tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage might be affecting a larger number of users.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
In Kampala Uganda where some 3.4 million users are on social media, there are reported incidents of the Apps either slowing down or outrightly frozen.
A WhatsApper, Raymond Atuhe tells MediaScape News that his WhatsApp is ‘too slow and taking long to connect.’
This crush comes at a time when a Facebook whistle blower has caused a firestorm after releasing internal documents detailing how the company failed to address negative effects of its social media products came forward Sunday night on CBS’ 60 Minutes.
Frances Haugen, a data scientist who worked at Facebook as a product manager on the Civic Integrity team, said the social media platform has lied to the public about resolving hate and violence to increase traffic and engagement and in turn, profit.
Among the allegations she leveled at Facebook was that the company bears responsibility for the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, because it reversed some of its safeguards against misinformation after the 2020 election, reports Time.com.
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