Facebook, Instagram and Threads are all down on Super Tuesday in a big meta outing

Reports are coming in that many of Meta’s top social apps, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as its new app Threads, are all experiencing outages on Tuesday morning. When loading apps or websites, users get an error message saying “something went wrong” and have to try again later, or, in the case of Facebook, they go to a landing page logged out but signed in. are not able to be When using their correct password.

The problems appear to have started sometime after 10 AM ET on Tuesday, according to reports on social media and various user-submitted issue trackers, such as DownDetector. However, Meta’s own status page only shows results related to Meta’s business products, such as Ads Manager, and not the platforms as a whole. We’ve reached out to Meta to confirm the timing and reports and will update if we hear more information. Meanwhile, Meta Communications Director Andy Stone has confirmed the closure Post on xnoting, “We know people are having trouble accessing our services. We’re working on it right now.”

It is highly unusual for Meta to experience such a massive outage, given the size and scale of its network and the redundancy it creates. For this reason, some people are skeptical about the origin of this shutdown, especially since it is election day. A number of US states, which means millions of people headed to the polls to vote in the primaries known as Super Tuesday. The outage, then, comes at a scary time for any candidates or political organizations looking for last-minute voter outreach efforts or those reminding people to vote.

Meta’s suite of apps has played a big role in the election cycle, given its family of apps, which also includes WhatsApp, now reached 3.98 million monthly active users by the end of last year, company data showed. be To prevent its potential role in influencing election results, Meta disables political ads in time frames with key elections, such as the U.S. midterms. To address the new concerns, Meta also announced that it will label political ads with AI-generated images for the 2024 election cycle.

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