Facebook And Other Apps Down

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  1. Don Alaska

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    Facebook and associated apps are down. Does anyone know why?
     
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    Mine comes on, but only shows posts from yesterday, and the Groups section will not open up at all. Apparently some of the phone companies and internet providers are having problems, too; whatever is causing this.

    Twitter is saying that 60 Minutes did an episode about Facebook last night, and it was not a supportive one. Interesting that the next day, they all are down all over the whole world.

    https://insiderpaper.com/verizon-t-mobile-and-att-outage-cellular-service-down/
     
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    There's a bill in Congress to remove some of the protections from large social media outlets like Facebook. I doubt that's the reason why they'd be down, though.
     
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    Seems to be back up now approx 6:45 pm edt
     
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    Mark Zuckerberg is working hard to get it up and running again…….

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    I thought there was something wrong with my computer today when I tried t access Facebook and could not. I hear later in the day about good old government interference. This is a little Spooky don't you think?
     
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    This "down time" was all over CNN yesterday. It's 7:36 MT here and "all is well" getting into FB.
     
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    Maybe they're destroying incriminating evidence.

    I'm not holding my breath though. Washington is their friend and partner. Any hearings or investigations will just be for show to keep the sheep happy.
     
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    "Fixing Facebook" would be the cover for even more control.
     
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    I was just checking Twitter, and there were no new posts that had come on since yesterday. I looked it up, and apparently Twitter has either crashed, or is just working slow because of the influx of people yesterday when Facebook was down.
    It appears that something might be happening with social media, and I am hoping that it is something good. President Trump has been saying that he wants his Twitter account back, so maybe some things are being changed with their way of throwing people’s accounts off of the platform ?

    https://www.thewashingtontime.com/twitter-down-when-will-twitter-be-back-up-latest-status-update/
     
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    Quite likely, this was all about distracting people from the scrutiny that the big tech media companies are facing right now.
     
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    Or it is a canard for government to "fix it," meaning it becomes an even more lopsided platform.
     
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    Who knows?

    Did you see today that the Attorney General has directed the FBI to investigate (?) charge (?) parents who raise objections at school board meetings to Critical Race Theory propaganda and label them as "terrorists"? I'm going from memory from what I heard today, not sure about accuracy. But it's something like that.

    We are starting to see their teeth and claws now, and "the masses" remain clueless, stuffing their pie holes with cheap food (bread) while watching sports (the circuses) on TV.

    "Hey, everything is cool, I don't have to wear a face diaper while watching football. Where's the pizza guy?"
     
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    The Patriot Act comes back to haunt....
     
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