Several major online platforms, including US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social network, experienced brief outages on Friday, December 5, after a disruption linked to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare.
Users attempting to access Truth Social and other sites such as the design platform Canva were met with error messages referencing Cloudflare until around 0930 GMT. Complaints about accessibility issues surfaced widely on X earlier in the morning.
Cloudflare’s chief technology officer, Dane Knecht, acknowledged the disruption in a post on X at 0920 GMT, saying the company was “aware of the issue impacting the availability of Cloudflare’s network” and stressing that the incident “was not an attack.”
Cloudflare provides security, optimisation and traffic management services for a vast number of websites and apps and says it handles roughly twenty percent of global internet traffic. A similar outage in mid November also knocked numerous popular sites offline for several hours.
Service across the affected platforms was restored shortly after the company began addressing the issue.
