Meta Wins Trial; Cloudflare, GitHub Crash
Summary
Major platforms faced legal wins or critical infrastructure failures today, highlighting ongoing instability in both regulatory and operational tech environments.
- Antitrust Victory Confirmed: Meta secured a win against the FTC antitrust trial after five years of litigation 1.
- Widespread Service Failures: Cloudflare experienced latency and errors starting before 15:23 UTC, detailed in a post-mortem [6, 8].
- Dev Platform Downtime: GitHub reported Git operation failures affecting services like Codespaces beginning at 21:27 UTC 2.
- Leadership Exit: The CEO of Mastodon announced their departure after 10 years, transferring project trademarks 4.
- Interoperability Frustration: An iPhone 15 Pro user detailed over a month of non-working RCS messaging issues between Apple and carriers 5.
- Five years - Duration of the antitrust litigation Meta won against the FTC 1.
- 10 years - Time the departing CEO led the Mastodon project before stepping down 4.
- 15:23 UTC - Approximate start time for Cloudflare Global Network latency issues 6.
- 16 stories - The number of stories featured in the Think Weirder science fiction anthology 7.
Key Moments
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Meta secured a victory in its U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust trial on Tuesday, November 18, 2025.
— Article [1] -
The Cloudflare Global Network experienced an incident resulting in elevated errors and latency, impacting services starting before 15:23 UTC.
— Article [6] -
The CEO of Mastodon announced their departure after nearly 10 years leading the project.
— Article [4] -
GitHub reported an incident titled "Git operation failures" on November 18, 2025.
— Article [2] -
The author has experienced non-working RCS messaging on an iPhone 15 Pro for over a month.
— Article [5]
Different Perspectives
Supporting View
The author used specific code and open-source tools to produce a 16-story science fiction anthology, *Think Weirder* [7].
Sources:
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