Reports are coming in that a number of Meta’s top social apps, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as its new app Threads, are all experiencing an outage on Tuesday morning.
When loading the apps or websites, users receive an error message that “something went wrong” and to try again later, or, in the case of Facebook, they’re taken to a logged-out landing page but are unable to sign in even when using their correct password.
It’s highly unusual for Meta to be experiencing a widespread outage like this, given the size and scale of its network and the redundancies built in.
For that reason, some people are suspicious about the origins of this outage, particularly because it’s election day across a number of U.S. states, which means millions of people are headed to the polls to vote in the primary on what’s known as Super Tuesday.
This outage, then, comes at a terrible time for any candidates or political organizations looking to do last-minute voter outreach efforts or those reminding people to go vote.
