Tell HN: Meta is down

reportinglurker 124 points 94 comments June 12, 2026
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Meta is currently down, facebook, insta. The outage is not registered on https://metastatus.com/ , possibly implying a greater outage.

Discussion Highlights (20 comments)

iamthejuan

downdetector 404

ericmay

The home pages (I don't have accounts) load just fine. Maybe it is already resolved.

nvj2008

Down detector showing a spike in Facebook outages prior to going 404

mesmertech

noticed it cause of ad manager, the main facebook site being down is kinda weird tho. I don't remember when was the last time that happened

santiagobasulto

Whatsapp is working fine for me (in Europe) btw

everdrive

Hopefully it stays down.

apavlinovic

Same here, down

josefritzishere

AI slopification

amirhirsch

Someone at Meta used Fable. Fable seized its opportunity to make the world safer.

supergilbert

First time I see facebook down. Willing to bet it comes from an AI-assisted code change.

jarm0

"I'll just do this small release on a Friday before heading out" - thought a software engineer before AI-slopification period. Today it was probably some AI agent which fixed all of the performance issues by deleting everything.

pelagicAustral

Boomers on self-deprecation watch.

iradik

Instagram is working for me but Facebook is not. What’s app working.

sgt

With all these services down, is it possible to find out if anything of importance is down?

dvh

Naming things is hard: if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FBForIPhone') >= 0 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FBIOS') >= 0 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FBAN') >= 0 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FB4A') >= 0) { classes += 'app '; }

hidelooktropic

It's just Facebook.

baggachipz

record grass touching

cluckindan

A communications disruption can only mean one thing…

sgt

Seems Meta API's for WhatsApp is down. But WhatsApp between users seem to be up.

Spqa

It's not DNS. There's no way it's DNS. It was DNS

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