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Cloudflare Outage Exposes Reliance On a Handful of Internet Companies

  • Article Published November 19, 2025

This segment originally aired on NPR’s All Things Considered on November 19, 2025.

By Jason Fuller, Patrick Jarenwattananon, and Ailsa Chang

NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Betsy Cooper, a cybersecurity expert at the Aspen Institute, about this week’s major Internet outage and the world’s reliance on a handful of web service companies.

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