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Meta's service outage for two hours, borrowing X to send messages, was harshly criticized by Musk

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According to a report by Reuters, Facebook and Instagram, both owned by Meta, experienced a technical issue last night that caused an outage for over two hours, affecting hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. A spokesperson stated that the White House National Security Council is monitoring the situation and no specific malicious cyber activity has been identified at this time.

Meta Crashes and Musk Takes the Opportunity to Taunt

According to data from the outage tracking website DownDetector.com, during the peak of the outage, Facebook received over 550,000 outage reports, while Instagram received approximately 92,000 outage reports.

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone made a statement on X:

Earlier today, a technical issue made it difficult for people to access some of our services. We resolved the issue for everyone affected as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

However, he did not provide detailed reasons for the outage.

Meanwhile, owner and rival Elon Musk did not miss the chance to advertise: "If you are reading this article, it's because our servers are running!" and posted a cute penguin meme to mock.

Employees Mistakenly Think They Were Fired, Meta Stock Drops 1.6%

According to reports from Reuters, several Meta employees expressed on the anonymous messaging app Blind that they were unable to log into internal work systems, leading them to suspect they had been fired.

As a result, Meta's stock price dropped by 1.6% yesterday.