BGP is a mechanism by which Internet service providers of the world share information about which providers are responsible for routing Internet traffic to which specific groups of Internet addresses. ET today (15:39 UTC), someone at Facebook caused an update to be made to the company’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) records. Kentik’s view of the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage.ĭoug Madory is director of internet analysis at Kentik, a San Francisco-based network monitoring company.