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WhatsApp Services Partially Restored In India After Massive Outage

By LokMarg

WhatsApp seemed to be partially restored in India and Android and iOS users were able to send and receive messages on the popular instant communication app that went down for almost two hours on Tuesday.

Users of the Meta-owned instant messaging and voice call platform had reported that they were unable to send group as well as personal chats during the outage. Users of WhatsApp web were also affected in the outage.
Meta had earlier acknowledged the disruption and said it was working to fix the outage.

“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible,” a Meta spokesperson said.

Several other countries have also reported the issue with WhatsApp, according to trackers.

According to DownDetector, a website that reports on outages and other problems, many users reported issues in using WhatsApp since 3:17 AM EDT (12:30 pm IST) as per the DownDetector tracker.

Affected regions based on Downdetector’s heat map include major cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Hyderabad as well as Nagpur and Lucknow among others.

After services were restored users headed to Twitter to share. Check out some of the reactions here:

One user shared an image from a scene of ‘Peaky Blinders’, a gangster drama web series.

Another user could not contain their happiness as they posted a series of dancing emoticons.

Some users also heaved a sigh of relief, through pictures like this one.

According to Downdetector, 70 percent of WhatsApp users reported issues in sending messages, while 24 percent had issues with server connection and 7 percent said they were facing app issues.

On October 5, 2021, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook stopped working for over six hours. It took over six hours for Facebook to resolve the issue that the company claimed arose due to a faulty configuration change. The WhatsApp outage affected an estimated 3.5 billion users across the globe. (ANI)

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FB Deletes 600 'Inauthentic' Accounts

By LokMarg Publishing
In its latest efforts at curbing the nuisance of spam and inauthentic behaviour that is rampant on its platform, Facebook has announced to have removed more than 600 pages or accounts from India, and more than 100 pages or account from Pakistan.

In the official blog, Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy at Facebook wrote that a total of 103 pages, groups, and accounts on both Facebook and Instagram were removed for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour. These originated in Pakistan and were linked to the country’s military fan pages.

Separately, 687 Facebook pages and accounts originating in India, were also removed. Interestingly, these were linked to individuals associated with an IT Cell of the Indian National Congress (INC).

In another set of removals, 15 Facebook pages, groups, and accounts engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour in India, linked to Indian IT firm, Silver Touch, were also pulled down. 321 pages and accounts in India, were also removed down for breaking Facebook’s rules against spam.

Gliecher explained that people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves. The action was taken against the pages and accounts based on the behaviour and not the content they posted.

Facebook has been aggressively taking measures to curb the spread of misinformation ahead of the General Elections in India which are scheduled to be held in seven phases starting April 11.

(ANI)

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