Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp back online

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are back online on Tuesday.

All three went offline for several hours in the late afternoon South African time.

Facebook said this was because of a configuration change to its routers.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent out an apology to users saying he understands how much they rely on these services to stay connected with their loved ones.

This is the worst outage since 2019 when Facebook went down for more than 24 hours.

Zuckerberg took a financial knock during the outage, losing more than 6-billion dollars as company shares plummeted.

Source: eNCA

In other news – Idols SA contestant sentenced to 10 years in jail

A one-time Idols hopeful has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for trafficking drugs from Brazil into SA. Ibrahim Cook, who in 2014 won a golden ticket twice in the television contest to determine the best young singer in SA, was sentenced in the Verulam magistrate’s court last Thursday.

At the time Cook, who went by the names “Gordon Jordaan” and “Gordan Cook”, was described by Idols as the show’s “most cheerful contestant”. Learn More