It’s not just you: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR are currently down.
The Facebook-owned services all use a shared infrastructure and are unreachable in multiple regions since about 11:41 AM eastern time.
Outages to social media networks aren’t uncommon, but this particular one is returning errors to would-be viewers of Facebook and Instagram that seem more significant than normal.
//⁰@pppWInstagram is returning a “5xx Service Error” in some regions for those who attempt to navigate to it from a browser, for example. A 5xx service code is defined as an error that is caused by the server, as explained by AT&T. Facebook is returning a “cannot be reached” error in some regions.
There do not appear to be any outages that can be linked to internet providers or service centers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading some to speculate that the issue is specific to Facebook and its network.
