The most incredible Facebook shutdown theories

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Anton Vetokhin, IT director of the Fresh Auto dealership network, told Gazeta.Ru that he met many different versions – from a cyber attack to checking the process of saving data in case of emergency situations.

“Technically, it really looks like a network equipment failure, but six hours to recover for such a large-scale IT company is too much to believe in a problem with the servers,” says the specialist.

According to him, if we consider the version about the interference of competitors, then not only direct applicants to their audience could benefit from the fall.

“For example, Russia recorded a 39% increase in TV sales just after the shutdown of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, audiobooks – by 132%, which could be beneficial to the largest electronics retailers in the country.” , – the expert explained his position.

Vetokhin considered, that all the same there is an unlikely criminal subtext. “Perhaps this was a test of a working hypothesis about how traffic flows from one messenger to another, as well as the reaction of business communities to a similar situation, or a common overload,” he concluded.

Lawyer, Chairman of the Council of the Moscow Bar Association “Andreev, Bodrov, Guzenko & Partners” Andrey Andreev told Gazeta.Ru the opinion that the cause of the failure was sabotage within the company.

“That is, this is the result of the actions of an employee or a group of employees. This development of events seems the least likely, the security services and protective systems in such global companies are working very well, and there is still no public information about the detainees, “he explained.

B Telegram – The Big Shock Theory channel has another version from an anonymous source. It states that error or tampering is out of the question and that “routing records have been removed from all DNS servers in a highly authoritative location.”

“Zuckerhugel himself intentionally says nothing about it, because whatever the reason he gives, it would be incredible, and experts would immediately tear him apart. He cannot recognize the truth, “the author is sure. site from the network, which brought down all Facebook services not only in the United States, but all over the world.

“After this demonstration of power, the white hats (probably is about ethical hackers, computer security specialists. – Gazeta.Ru) allowed Facebook to return to the network, I see no other explanation for this, “concluded the author of the post.

Zuckerberg is not saying something

Some experts agree that Mark Zuckerberg was extremely stingy about specifying what exactly happened on the evening of October 4.

Director of Digital & Social Media at PR Partner Damir Feyzullov in a comment to Gazeta.Ru agreed that Zuckerberg “has not yet given specifics.” However, he admitted that the head of Facebook still remains the most reliable source of information on the topic. scared, and their fears just came out. ”

“ Whoever fears UFOs attributed the crash to invasion of aliens, businessmen linked it with the economy and undercover intrigues, and those dissatisfied with the government accused the state of violating freedoms, “the specialist explained.

Alexander Khvoinitskiy, Development Director of Chatex Cryptobank in the CIS, told Gazeta.Ru that the most unusual theory he met was that some group of hackers fighting for the purity of the Internet decided to shut down the whole network.

“And at six o’clock in the evening, a warning appeared that now the Internet would be turned off and this was just the beginning. Moreover, it was reported that the entire world Internet will fall, and only the darknet and crypt will remain, “the expert said. and it really was a targeted attack on the global network. “There is a strange theory that it could be Russian hackers who decided to take over the Internet,” he added.

When asked why these theories continue to appear, Khvoinitsky replied that someone needed to spread such fakes. After all, for something it was necessary to make such a failure. These are either some tests, or some group of hackers, including those from Russia, could really operate, because we have a lot of advanced specialists in the service of the state and not only, “the specialist concluded.

Hacking hackers

One of the popular versions – this is a large-scale hack related to the speech of Francis Haugen , a Facebook informant. In an interview on the American television channel CBS on the night of October 4, she stated that the company misleads the public and the government and actually does not fight enough disinformation and calls for violence.

Lawyer Andrey Andreev believes that the interview could be related to problems in the work of services, but only indirectly. Facebook on tail cleaning, ”he explained.

Twitter screenshot of a bunch of DNS addresses, and suggested that Facebook is literally being erased since they noticed that some addresses were removed.

Other theory based on the alleged hack suggests that it was hackers who were able to get hold of and started selling 1.5 billion Facebook user profiles. Its supporters point to a September 22 message from X2Emails. The author claims to have acquired an incredible amount of data. Such databases of Facebook users can be collected from many sources, they appear regularly and are almost never associated with any kind of hacking.

Also, most likely , this is a false ad posted by a scammer who wants to make money on gullible people. In the comments, users have already warned others that the seller only sends a sample of 20 users and no more. Because of this, there are suspicions that the real base is not so great.

And the authorities are hiding

Users in some countries of the world immediately counted that it is not an American company that is to blame for the shutdown of Facebook, but the authorities or providers.

For example, Collins user Noel Okieng from Kenya saw local oligarchs acting as a failure. “I suspect the African billionaires from the Pandora Papers data breach are behind this social media censorship disguised as a network glitch,” he wrote.

feared that failures in Facebo ok, WhatsApp and Instagram are the beginning of the offensive of a complete ban on social media in their country. Another culprit, which many have blamed for the crash, is the gadgets themselves.

“I thought my cell phone was faulty. I have rebooted it over 50 times, ”wrote Jacinta Nicolaou from Mozambique. For example, that aliens are to blame for the malfunction. “I think UFOs played their part in the shutdown,” wrote Sakhr Tengbe. There were also those who saw the actions of God in what happened. User Amad Osyhotse wrote: “It’s time for the physical world to understand what God is: He controls everything and everyone.”

Cryptocurrency Trail

Another unusual version – the shutdown was planned because Zuckerberg wanted to get into the cryptocurrency business.

This statement is similar to those that actively appeared in the comments under the posts of real celebrities, such as the head of SpaceX Elon Musk . Fraudsters created special links to steal money from people under the guise of obtaining cryptocurrency funds. “WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram are entering the crypto space. To speed up the process of mass adoption of cryptocurrencies and to apologize for the long downtime, we decided to distribute 15,000 bitcoins and 40,000 ether to users. ”

Viral the video used a fragment from the real performance Zuckerberg at Georgetown University USA in October 2019.

Lawyer Andrei Andreev noted that he regularly met the economic justification for the failure. “The goal is to drop the value of the company’s shares for further speculation, which, in fact, happened. Facebook’s capitalization fell by $ 6 billion, and shares fell by 5%, which is a lot for the stock market, “he said.