Cloudflare suffered a major outage on Nov. 18, and it took many major platforms down with it. OpenAI, Spotify, X, and Canva were among just some of the websites and services that went down Tuesday morning. Feel like you're experiencing deja vu? Well, you're not.

Cloudflare, a major global web services provider, confirmed its services have crashed, leading to "widespread errors" for internet users, with approximately one-fifth of the internet impacted by the o

Cloudflare, one of the largest providers of internet services for websites, said just before 7:00 a.m. Eastern that it had begun investigating the issue.

For much of the world, there is no longer any such thing as being offline. The internet underpins the global financial and consumer ecosystem, enabling instant communication and transactions. While the system is integral to so much human activity,

Major internet platforms are experiencing service disruptions on the morning of Nov. 18, following a reported outage by Cloudflare. Here's what we know.