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The technical malfunction that affected the “Facebook” and “Instagram” applications - yesterday, Tuesday - raised widespread concern among users of social media platforms, especially with some activists fearing that their personal accounts would be hacked.
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The Down Detector website, which specializes in tracking website malfunctions, detected more than 500,000 malfunction reports from all over the world within an hour or two.
American billionaire Elon Musk, owner of the
In turn, Meta was quick to apologize for the technical glitch that struck its platforms, noting that “a technical problem caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the problem as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
Between upset and happy
The “Networks” program - in its episode on (3/6/2024) - monitored the interaction of tweeters with the incident that shook the virtual platforms, with some searching for the reasons for what happened and the lessons learned, while others turned to alternative platforms, including X (formerly Twitter). .
In this context, some tweeters revealed what they did during the technical malfunction, as Samir said, “Guys, I turned off the router and opened it 20 times. It turns out that Mark Zuckerberg (owner and CEO of Meta) is the one who should turn off and turn on the router.”
In turn, Sawsan commented on what happened, “I thought they were hacked, and I am trying to stall the hacker and change the password, but every time I log in, they kick me out.”
Slim believed that the owner of the “X” platform was the primary beneficiary of what happened, and added, “No one is beneficiary except Elon Musk. Everyone on Twitter is looking for the reason, and the people on Twitter do not care about Facebook at all.”
For his part, Tayseer expressed his happiness over the technical malfunction that affected some social applications, and said, “Thank God it was malfunctioning. It is an opportunity for us to return to communicating with each other in a more humane way. The most important thing is that we return to reading and hearing what comes and goes.”
Ahmed highlighted people’s attachment to these platforms and the harm resulting from them, and added, “An hour that showed how fragile people are at this time, and the extent of their connection to virtual reality, and it became clearly visible the extent of mental and intellectual control and the ease of controlling people’s minds through it.”
It should be noted that due to this defect, the owner of Meta Company lost about $100 million during this hour, and the price of his company’s shares fell by 1.5%.