Major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT, were inaccessible for thousands of users globally on Tuesday (November 18) as web-infrastructure firm Cloudflare was hit by an outage, disrupting internet services. Cloudflare, whose network handles around a fifth of web traffic, said it started to investigate the internal service degradation around 6:40 a.m. ET. It has deployed a fix but some customers might still be impacted as it recovers service. The incident seemingly prevented thousands of