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| Oct 4, 2021

Too early to say why Facebook went down- Dushyant Savadia

Al Edwards

Al Edwards / Our Today

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Amber Group’s founder and CEO Dushyant Savadia

With Facebook and its associate companies Instagram and WhatsApp going down today (October 4), much to the consternation of the world, tech company Amber Group’s founder and CEO Dushyant Savadia says it’s too early to tell exactly why the popular social media platforms have been rendered inoperable.

Five hours after going down, Facebook has not explained what exactly is the problem and when it anticipates getting back up.

There is speculation that the company’s decision to make so many updates of its Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) may have inadvertently caused a technical headache.

Savadia, speaking with Our Today, said: “It’s too early to say exactly why this has happened. Facebook with need time to locate the problem. It could be a global server outage. Facebook’s priority is to get back on line quickly and to see to it that the problem is fixed.”

SAVADIA A MEMBER OF FORBES TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL

The Amber Group is a technology company headquartered in Jamaica with operations in 30 countries with 10 business lines including Amber Pay, Amber Connect and the soon-to-be-launched, Amber Aviation.

It will be hosting a large virtual event on October 6 with Director of Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) for Latin America and the Caribbean Tom Helou expected to make a presentation.

A main feature of the event will be addressing cybersecurity issues.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness will deliver the keynote address.

Only last month, Savadia was invited to become a member of Forbes Technology Council. This prestigious body consists of some of the best technology leaders in the world.

The Facebook shutdown has seen founder Mark Zuckerberg lose US$7 billion in a matter of hours as the company’s share price plummets.

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