Facebook died today

For hours and hours earlier today, the otherwise decentralized Facebook login routes were mostly all blocked.

Facebook hasn’t come out with an official explanation yet, but Facebook, along with its related products, have been out for hours upon hours users have complained.

What is believed to have happened is, not necessarily an organized hack, but rather the “border gateway protocol” has been affected, which works as a decentralized postal service, let’s call it, which no one really has control over, but is a way information travels — and, ironically similar to cryptocurrency, we understand, as well.

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