HOT TAKE: Facebook's Power Outage - What Happened, Why it Happened, and Why it Matters
Channel: pijipvideo
Date: 2021-10-20

Listen to Professors Carroll and DeNardis discuss what is currently known about the causes of the Facebook outages. The discussion explains how Facebook and other Internet platforms rely on a technological architecture that has enabled the rapid growth of the Internet but that also has a number of security risks and other pitfalls that Internet users should understand. The discussion also touched on whether this episode reveals a need for greater regulation at the technical level of how Internet platforms operate, leaving for another day discussion of regulating the content on these platforms.