Internet Outage Hits Major Websites

A number of major websites could not be reached early Tuesday because of an outage at the cloud services company Fastly.

The affected sites included news agencies CNN, The Guardian and The New York Times, streaming platform Twitch, and the British government website.   All were back online within a period of hours. The outage also forced CNN’s website offline in the Asian cities of Hong Kong and Singapore. There was little mention of the outage on social media platforms in China, where most foreign media websites are permanently blocked.