"Okay, so check this out. There's this major glitch happening with Facebook right now. People are getting kicked out of their accounts left and right. This started popping up around 4:30pm in several places, including Malta.
Here's the deal: You try to log in, and Facebook hits you with the 'incorrect password' line. Major login drama. Nobody really knows what's up yet. It's kind of a mystery.
But wait, it's not just Facebook. Messenger and Instagram are also caught up in this mess.
Get this - Down Detector has logged over 504,000 reports about these Facebook login issues, and that's just in a 24-minute window. It's blowing up, for real."
Social media comentators on twitter have already started adding their 2 cents onto what has is happening with one US Twitter user noticing how this just happened to occur on Super Tuesday, a major day in the US political primaries.
What a coincidence that Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube are down on Super Tuesday
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) March 5, 2024
Practice run for November? pic.twitter.com/5rIu1pQAE4
Others are noting how it perfectly co-incides with the new All time High for Bitcoin - which incidentally soared past $69,000 usd this afternoon
#Bitcoin hits ATH. Facebook and Instagram go down. YouTube goes down. Coinbase can’t handle the volume.
— Degen (@DeikusAlexander) March 5, 2024
You know what didn’t go down? #Bitcoin
After about 1.5 hrs Meta said it had resolved the issue in a pr
“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services,” Stone said on X. “We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
In a report to CNN, referencing Tuesday’s Super Tuesday primary elections, a spoksperson for the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency stated
“We are aware of availability issues affecting certain services provided by Meta. At this time we are not aware of specific malicious cyber activity or any specific nexus to today’s elections,”
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