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Cloudflare outage exposes reliance on a handful of Internet companies

By Jason Fuller,

Patrick Jarenwattananon, Ailsa Chang

Published November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM CST

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 services companies.

Jason Fuller

Patrick Jarenwattananon

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Ailsa Chang

Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist who hosts All Things Considered along with Ari Shapiro, Audie Cornish, and Mary Louise Kelly. She landed in public radio after practicing law for a few years.

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