A huge chunk of the internet went down for the second time in a month – Metro

A huge chunk of the internet went down for the second time in a month Sarah Hooper Published December 5, 2025 9:05am Updated December 5, 2025 1:39pm It comes weeks after another issue with Cloudflare (Picture: Getty) Internet users reported massive outages across platforms using Cloudflare, including Zoom, Canva, LinkedIn, and even DownDetector. Cloudflare provides services to major websites, including Discord, Notion, X, Spotify, Canva, GitHub, and Stack Overflow. Shopping sites are affected too – Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, H&M, as well as some news media, including Politico, Axios, the BBC and more. Even Down Detector, the website which tracks internet and app outages, is experiencing issues. Cloudflare said shortly after 9am that it is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs (application programming interfaces)’. The software business said users have seen ‘a large number of empty pages’ as a result. It added shortly after that it has implemented a potential fix to the issue and is now monitoring the results. Cloudflare is a company that helps nearly two in 10 websites secure and manage their internet traffic. Many of the platforms that were knocked offline use those servers. Are you experiencing internet issues? Stay up to date with the stories everybody’s talking about by signing
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