Draft:2024 Facebook outage

On March 5, 2024. Facebook, with other applications like Instagram, Threads and Messenger suddenly stopped working around the World. It started at 15:00 UTC and was reported to Meta Platforms of Facebook at 15:30 UTC. The outage happened over 2 hours until Meta fixed. This is not the only outage that Facebook has faced, in 2021, Facebook with 5 other applications Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Mapillary and Oculus went outage for 7 hours.

Main situation
The outage started around at 15:00 UTC and was reported to Meta Platforms of Facebook. There was 500,000 reports during the outage, about 76% of the problems reported by Facebook users related to trouble logging in.

The outage happened on Super Tuesday, when 15 states and 1 territory were organizing votes in the United States. The White House authorities were monitoring the issue for the security.

Response
Spokesman Andy Stone said during the outage: "Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience."

An article posted on the internal group for Meta engineers further explains the problem:

"Accordingly, the error occurred during maintenance and verification of configuration values ​​in Meta's system, conducted by an automated tool. The purpose of this automated tool is to check for invalid configuration values ​​in the system cache and replace them with updated values ​​from the persistent store." Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience. March 5, 2024

Aftermath
Meta

After the outage, Meta lost over $3 billion, separately from Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, lost over $100 million. This is one of the biggest losing of Meta Platforms.

Reactions
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter (X) since 2022, mocked the outage by posting a post on X: "If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working". If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working March 5, 2024 After the first outage post published, Musk continued to post an image meme from Penguins of Madagascar movie: