Facebook Suffers Major Outage

Global Impact

In a major disruption, Facebook, along with its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp, went offline for an extended period on [Date]. The outage affected billions of users worldwide, leaving them unable to access the popular social media platforms.

Cause and Resolution

The cause of the outage is still under investigation, but it is believed to have been related to a DNS (Domain Name System) issue. DNS is responsible for translating domain names into IP addresses, which are used to access websites. Facebook has stated that it is working to resolve the problem and restore services as soon as possible.