{"id":44501,"date":"2024-08-10T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T09:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=44501"},"modified":"2024-08-10T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T09:27:12","slug":"social-media-platforms-faces-internet-disruption-for-second-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/social-media-platforms-faces-internet-disruption-for-second-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media platforms faces internet disruption for second day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Several social media applications including WhatsApp have seen <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/internet-disruption-emerged-across-pakistan-for-unknown-reasons\/\">disruption<\/a> in various cities of Pakistan since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of users also faced problems accessing<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Instagram in major Pakistani cities<\/span> like Islamabad, Lahore, Faisalabad, and Karachi reporting the majority of the cases in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reports have also emerged of messages not downloading on WhatsApp. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Downdetector reported on Friday that WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram have been experiencing slowdowns for several hours. The website again reported a spike in <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">complaints<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Users are forced to use virtual private networks (VPNs) to send voice notes and media files.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_804659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-804659\"><a class=\"ari-fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024-08-09-22.24.05-downdetector.pk-c4fcb3851303.jpg\" data-caption=\"WhatsApp outages report in Pakistan during the past 24 hours: Down Detector\"><picture class=\"wp-image-804659 size-full\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024-08-09-22.24.05-downdetector.pk-c4fcb3851303.jpg.avif\" type=\"image\/avif\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024-08-09-22.24.05-downdetector.pk-c4fcb3851303.jpg.avif\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, NetBlocks, another important platform monitoring internet restrictions, has not reported any anomaly in <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pakistan&#8217;s<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> internet traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The disruption comes <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">in the wake of<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> reports that Pakistani authorities are testing a firewall to block and filter out unwanted social media content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and most Internet Service Providers (IPS) haven\u2019t issued any clarification on the social media disruption.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ari-fancybox\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Map.jpg\"><picture class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-804662\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Map.jpg.avif\" type=\"image\/avif\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Map.jpg.avif\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Several social media applications including WhatsApp have seen disruption in various cities of Pakistan since Friday. Thousands of users also faced problems accessing\u00a0Instagram in major Pakistani cities like Islamabad, Lahore, Faisalabad, and Karachi reporting the majority of the cases in the past 24 hours. Reports have also emerged of messages not downloading on WhatsApp. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":34583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4210,719],"class_list":["post-44501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-pta","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44502,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44501\/revisions\/44502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}