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Re:Meta outage by MandieD on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @11:50AM (#39606051)
Additional fun factor: today is Super Tuesday - primary elections in a lot of US states.

This outage will result in absolutely no ridiculous conspiracy theories.

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Re:Meta outage by kurthr on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @11:58AM (#39606165)
If your election integrity relies on Facebook, YouTube, or even DNS to be up... there are bigger issues.

Actually, if all of them including Xitter went down, maybe things would get better? All the sunlight photons might get sucked in by too many eyeballs though, and there could be grass trampling.

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Re:Meta outage by Turing_Machine on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @12:19PM (#39606432)
> If your election integrity relies on Facebook, YouTube, or even DNS to be up... there are bigger issues.

I agree. While I don't think it likely that Facebook or YouTube would enter into it, I'd pretty much bet that DNS being down would cause problems.

And yes, there are bigger issues with that. Much.

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