{"id":214060,"date":"2025-11-18T21:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cloudflare-outage-disrupts-x-chatgpt-and-other-parts-of-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:06:51","slug":"zimbabwe-cloudflare-outage-disrupts-x-chatgpt-and-other-parts-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cloudflare-outage-disrupts-x-chatgpt-and-other-parts-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Cloudflare Outage Disrupts X, Chatgpt and Other Parts of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Cloudflare, a networking company that provides DDoS protection and internet content delivery services for many companies around the globe, is working to fix a major outage that&#8217;s taking down sites across the web. Users encountered error messages when trying to access X, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/status.openai.com\/incidents\/01KABE2437NJYKBFHT22SD3H92\" rel=\"noopener\">ChatGPT<\/a>, and even the outage-tracking site DownDetector, which are now showing signs of recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Many sites displayed an error message saying &#8220;Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.&#8221; On Cloudflare&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflarestatus.com\/incidents\/8gmgl950y3h7\" rel=\"noopener\">status page<\/a>, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511180643.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloudflare, a networking company that provides DDoS protection and internet content delivery services for many companies around the globe, is working to fix a major outage that&#8217;s taking down sites across the web. Users encountered error messages when trying to access X, ChatGPT, and even the outage-tracking site DownDetector, which are now showing signs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,52897,52896,11991,7162,257,21058,7980,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-214060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chatgpt","tag-cloudflare","tag-disrupts","tag-internet","tag-news","tag-outage","tag-parts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}