Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Platforms Including X, ChatGPT and Spotify

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Above: A cell phone screen displaying a Cloudflare Error on Nov. 18, 2025. Image credit: Gado/Getty Images

The Spin

Establishment-critical narrative

Tech infrastructure has become dangerously fragile due to corporate cost-cutting and neglect of basic maintenance. Companies prioritize flashy innovation over boring but critical upkeep, leaving overworked IT staff to manage systems that affect millions with inadequate resources and impossible deadlines.

The Telegraph University of Exeter

Learning Crypto on X

Pro-establishment narrative

Internet outages are inevitable, given the massive scale and complexity of modern cloud systems, but the infrastructure is actually remarkably resilient. These rare disruptions highlight how well-designed the decentralized internet architecture truly is, with robust backup systems and rapid recovery capabilities.

CNN The CloudFlare Blog