The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that three marine communications cables passing through the waters of the Red Sea were cut, amid talk of damage affecting the Facebook and Instagram platforms..
Citing unnamed officials, the agency explained that 3 international cables that pass through the Red Sea and provide Internet and communications around the world were cut off yesterday, without indicating who was responsible for that..
Quoting a statement from Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications, the Associated Press said that the severed cables include the “Asia-Africa-Europe 1” cable, the “Europe-India” cable, and the “Secom TGN Golf” cable.“.
The company stated that the cable outage affected 25% of the data flow through the Red Sea cable, which it said was “important” for the flow of data from Asia to Europe. It also said it had begun redirecting traffic.
At the same time, thousands of users spoke to my platform Facebook And Instagram, which is affiliated with Meta, reported problems affecting their accounts on the two platforms.
According to Dondetector.com” (downdetector) More than 300,000 reports of service outages were submitted to Facebook, and more than 20,000 reports were submitted to Instagram users..
In its first comment, Meta said that it was investigating cases of Facebook and Instagram service outages.
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