A major outage on the internet has caused huge problems on the sites of top news media around the world but also on YouTube, Spotify and Twitter.
Top news websites such as the Guardian, the Financial Times and the New York Times have fallen into the middle of a major internet shutdown.
International #news outlets like the Financial Times,
TheGuardian, BBC, CNN, Le Monde suffer online outage; Twitch, Reddit, Pintrest also unavailable. What's going on? pic.twitter.com/wlbrAiUAAT— World Markets Daily (@WorldMarketsDa1) June 8, 2021
Other UK news networks are experiencing technical problems as users have been having trouble accessing YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Amazon and Paypal since Tuesday morning.
The DownDetector page, which identifies websites that have crashed or malfunctioned, has listed many related issues.
“Users have been reporting problems on YouTube since 3:10 AM EDT [07:10 GMT],” Downdetector said on Twitter.
User reports indicate Youtube is having problems since 3:10 AM EDT. https://t.co/XrCFHBn78f RT if you're also having problems #Youtubedown
— Downdetector (@downdetector) June 8, 2021
According to Guardian technology editor Alex Hern, the outage may be due to a malfunction of US web-based web content provider Fastly.
https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1402210287504273411
Fastly stressed that the problem has been identified and the damage is being repaired gradually.
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