Configuration change cascaded down the data centers, bringing systems to a halt.
Facebook is down
Facebook is down, along with Whatsapp and Instagram. Post your conspiracy theories here. A now-deleted redditor, presumably a FB employee, is quoted here as saying
As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a sympt…
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know [Updated]
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.