Global media websites, including NYT, FT, CNN face outage

Preliminary reports suggest a technical glitch in a private CDN (Content Delivery Network) causing outage

Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe including New York Times, Financial Times, and CNN on Tuesday, with some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.

Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch and the UK government's home page were down. Agencies could not immediately confirm the issue affecting the sites.

San Francisco-based Fastly acknowledged a problem just before 1000 GMT. It said in repeated updates on its website that it was “continuing to investigate the issue." 

Most of Fastly's coverage areas were facing "Degraded Performance", the website showed. 

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