That doesn't mean something else is going on. It means that there are a lot of us who are web addicts who were temporarily deprived of our Zucker-smack and desperately flailed about in the rest of the web for a fix until our main dose got restored.

As for WhatsApp, that is of course a FB property.

I'm still thinking it's BGP poisoning of some top platforms... no one really knows what's going on, but BGP isn't byzantine fault tolerant

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/faceb...