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Congress claims Facebook, WhatsApp worldwide outage was Modi conspiracy to curb Priyanka Gandhi’s recognition

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On October 4, customers worldwide confronted outage of a number of companies owned by Facebook Inc., together with social media platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. It took a number of hours for the companies to go up once more. In an official assertion, Facebook mentioned, “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centres caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt.”
However, Congress leaders and supporters blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian authorities for the outage. They alleged that the companies went down as part of a conspiracy to curb the recognition of Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi and to make sure details about the Lakhimpur incident doesn’t exit in public. They meant this in all seriousness.
Vinay Kumar Dokania, National Co-Coordinator Congress Social Media, mentioned, “Whatsapp, Facebook r most widely used apps in India. Both #WhatsAppDown & #facebookdown for more than 3hours now, the longest since last time memory serves me. Does one smell a conspiracy by Modi frnd Zuckerberg to prevent the brutal #lakhimpur_farmer_massacre video from going viral?”
Tweet by Vinay Kumar Dokania, National Co-Coordinator Congress Social Media. Source Twitter
In a now-deleted tweet, Congress chief Udit Raj mentioned, “It seems FC [FB], Whatapp [WhatsApp] & Instagram are deliberately blocked by the govt to contain the movement of Smt Priyanka Gandhi & Opposition and farmers.”
Now deleted tweet by Congress chief Udit Raj. Source: Twitter
Udit Raj is a part of the ‘agitation committee’ Congress arrange beneath management of veteran chief Digvijaya Singh. Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra can be one of many members together with Udit Raj. Udit Raj believes Facebook servers crashed to ‘contain’ Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s ‘movements’.
Rohan Gupta, Chairman, Social Media Department, Indian National Congress, mentioned, “WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram outage was coincidence or an experiment?”
Tweet by Rohan Gupta, Chairman, Social Media Department, Indian National Congress. Source: Twitter
Pankhuri Pathak, Vice-Chairperson Social Media UPCC, mentioned, “WhatsApp and Facebook never faced outage for such a long duration. They go down on their own, or it was done to suppress the truth of the Lakhimpur Farmer massacre? Was it to stop the new video from getting viral?”
Tweet by Pankhuri Pathak, Vice-Chairperson Social Media UPCC. Source: Twitter
UP East Youth Congress wrote, “The video of the murder has emerged. Sahib [PM Modi] has a visit to Lucknow tomorrow. Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, everything is closed. Or is it done intentionally? You decide!!”
Tweet by official deal with of UP East Youth Congress. Source: Twitter
Though the corporate has clarified that it was a technical fault that led to the worldwide outage of the companies, Congress leaders and supporters try to implicate that the Indian authorities deliberately bought Facebook servers down in India to suppress the voice of Congress leaders, particularly Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. 

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