Several websites, including Linkedin, Zoom and Canva, went down after new issues with internet provider Cloudflare.

The web infrastructure company said at around 9am that it was "investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs (application programming interfaces)" after reports of "a large number of empty pages".

Shortly after the announcement, Cloudflare said it had implemented a fix and was monitoring to see if it had worked, but several websites remained blank throughout the morning.

DownDetector, a site used to monitor online service issues, also went down as a result of the issue. When it came back online, it recorded more than 4,500 reports related to issues at Cloudflare.

Cloudflare, which provides network and security services for many online businesses, claims

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