The social networking platforms were down for about six hours, one of the longest outages in the history of Facebook. In addition, Facebook’s internal tools and communications platforms, including Workplace, were affected as well, according to published reports.
Facebook appeared to be facing a worldwide failure of external and internal services at the DNS, or Domain Name, level, according to reports.
“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” Facebook said in a tweet
Facebook had faced a 24-hour outage in March 2019 due to a server configuration change. The technical difficulties then affected Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger