Facebook’s six hour outage comedy’s gain.
One day after a whistleblower told CBS’s 60 Minutes that Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation, Facebook and Instagram crashed. Businesses were cut off from custers, Facebook employees were locked out of offices and Mark Zuckerberg lost $7 billion in net worth.
But, oh, what a great day it was for Facebook jokes on Twitter:
With facebook down how will antivaxxers know which animal meds to gargle
— Jake Maccoby (@jdmaccoby) October 4, 2021
Crap, Facebook is down. Does anyone know where else I can find memes comparing vaccination to the Holocaust?
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 4, 2021
#Isitme or is anyone else concerned that they cannot share a picture of their evening meal with 5,000+ #Facebook friends they have not seen in over a year or indeed ever met in person! pic.twitter.com/zcOioMS9K2
— Is it me? (@Isitmeuk) October 4, 2021
hello literally everyone
— Twitter (@Twitter) October 4, 2021
But if Facebook is down, how will my QAnon uncles alert me that Biden is injecting us with 5-G through balsamic vinaigrette salad dressing?
— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) October 4, 2021
How am I supposed to wish a happy birthday to that weird dude who I was friendly with in 3rd grade now?
— Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer_) October 4, 2021
"Don't like what we're doing? Well see how you like living without us for a day! BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!"
— ?? J.D. Rhoades, With Chaos Following ?? (@JD_Rhoades) October 4, 2021
Think of all the people accidentally getting vaccinated with Facebook down.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) October 4, 2021
Facebook and Instagram users coming to Twitter right now#WhatsApp pic.twitter.com/d2p7wiiA9o
— Krol Ongala (@KrolOngala) October 4, 2021
Facebook and Instagram are both down worldwide one day after a damning "60 Minutes" segment that featured former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen taking the company's awfulness to task.
— Charlotte Clymer ???? (@cmclymer) October 4, 2021
Facebook and Instagram aren’t working right now. And neither is Marjorie Taylor Greene.
— Holly McCormack for Congress (@Holly_4Congress) October 4, 2021
Report: Facebook Crashed After Mark Zuckerberg Failed CAPTCHA One Too Many Times https://t.co/UUitg7HoRI
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 4, 2021
"Dear fellow social media managers… y'all doing ok?"
"hello literally everyone"
"I haven’t been this productive since 2006."With Facebook and Instagram down for several hours on Monday, Twitter appeared to embrace its moment in the spotlight. https://t.co/xQ7HQwNKf7
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 4, 2021
What if Facebook built an AI system to combat misinformation and the first thing it did was delete the whole site? ?
— Travis Allen ? (@TravisAllen02) October 4, 2021
Shoot, Facebook is down. Does anyone else know where I can find misinformation about vaccines spread by people trying to get me to join their MLMs?
— waitwait (@waitwait) October 4, 2021
Since Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down coincidentally after a whistleblower from Facebook spilled the tea, a reminder that Mark Zuckerberg had a secret meeting in 2019 with Jared Kushner to strike a deal about not fact checking political speech during 2020 election.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) October 4, 2021
— Steven Chung (@stevenchung) October 4, 2021
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.