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I’ve seen many tweets from people in Germany, USA, Turkey etc. that they can’t access their WhatsApp account. Seems to be both Iranian government and Meta.

Edit: can be a compromised CDN. See https://twitter.com/roozbehp/status/1572841090910388225?s=46...

Edit 2: Videos are being removed too https://twitter.com/youranonstory/status/1572747450368290816...

Edit 3: from Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/protests-internet-disruption-ir/

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I’m in Turkey currently and my father works in Moscow as an expat, yesterday we were not able to do video calls on Whatsapp and assumed it’s the Russians blocking it because the error message that Whatsapp gave was something like the operator of the person you call doesn’t support video calls. Tried Wi-Fi and mobile internet, the result was the same.

Voice calls and text worked just fine.

(I've moved your comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32937709 to the merged thread because it's a good comment and I don't want it to get stuck where no one will see it.)

Thanks!

> Edit: can be a compromised CDN

I don't see mention of a CDN in the link or the conversation around it, the closest being "artifact of its infrastructure". Was it the correct link?

I'm not seeing how a CDN exploit would result in Instagram replying with "your post has been removed". That said I'm only inferring how Meta uses its CDNs (e.g storing static user posted video/image assets)

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