Massive internet outage as major websites go down worldwide

New York, June 8 (RHC)-- Multiple websites operated by news outlets including the Financial Times, CNN and Bloomberg News were down across the globe on Tuesday.

Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network was also affected.  France’s Le Monde newspaper started showing error messages that appeared on the website at approximately 10:00 GMT.

Separately, Amazon.com Inc’s retail website also seemed to face an outage.  Amazon was not immediately available for comment.

Britain’s Guardian newspaper said its website and app were affected. Sites of some other British news media were also not immediately loading.  The UK government’s main website was also unavailable.  The White House website had an error message but was later working.

The BBC and The New York Times were temporarily inaccessible but later returned.

Messages such as “Error 503 Service Unavailable” and “connection failure” appeared.

The issue affecting the websites was not immediately clear... but one report from CNN attributed the shut-sdown to Fastly, a major content delivery network, which reported a widespread failure.  Fastly supports news sites and apps like CNN, the Guardian, the New York Times and many others.  It also provides content delivery for Twitch, Pinterest, HBO Max, Hulu, Reddit, Spotify and other services.

Many of the websites were slowly coming back online by 11:00 GMT.