World media sites returning after Fastly service outage 

A government website has also been affected in the outage. 

A screengrab of the affected New York Times website that is currently down. Picture: Steven Heaney

A leading internet content delivery service is investigating an outage on its platform which may have caused a worldwide internet issue and taken dozens of major websites offline.

US firm Fastly, a content delivery network (CDN) which helps websites speed up loading times and present their content to users, has confirmed it is looking into an issue which had a “potential impact to performance with our CDN services”.