New York City’s WNBC took a lighthearted approach to today’s Facebook outage during its noon newscast this afternoon (video above).
“Just to keep panic at bay here, we do have breaking news right now: Facebook is down,” Contessa Brewer said. “We’re expecting this to trend on Twitter at any moment. Here’s the screen grab we have from our newsroom, where people are unforunately having trouble getting on. I got on, but nothing is uploading, nothing is updating. It just allowed me to send a friend request, that’s all.”
Brewer took to Twitter after the show to assure viewers she was being sarcastic:
#sarcasm & a lot of it. Rt @mirgray: @ContessaBrewer I wish I could read her body language to know if she is using sarcasm here.
— Contessa Brewer (@contessabrewer) August 1, 2014
[h/t Brian Stelter]