When I went to the social media platform Truth Social Thursday evening to see if Donald Trump was reacting to President Biden’s stunningly divisive State of the Union speech, I was greeted with a white screen.
Turns out Truth wasn’t the only site that went down during the diatribe – reports are that a slew of government and media sites were affected as well. Most are back up as of this writing, but the cause for the outages has not been determined.
Some US government websites are back online, some are still down pic.twitter.com/TAqvBTpnxh
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) March 8, 2024
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was one of those affected:
DEVELOPING: Federal Government websites go down as Biden deliver’s SOTU address; cause unknown pic.twitter.com/DzSHE8I1cO
— Salem News Channel (@WatchSalemNews) March 8, 2024
As was DHS, the Secret Service, and others: