Updated: 2:20 p. m.
Voters looking on Meta's social media platforms for the latest information about primary elections on Super Tuesday likely ran into some difficulties. Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger users experienced widespread login issues for a few hours.
Downdetector reported problems with the platforms Tuesday morning, as people in 15 states and the U.S. territory of Samoa headed to the polls to cast primary ballots for candidates vying for their party's nomination for the 2024 presidential election. Users reported being locked out of their Facebook accounts and feeds on the platform, and Threads and Instagram were not refreshing. WhatsApp, which is also owned by Meta, appeared unaffected.
Andy Stone, Meta’s head of communications, acknowledged the problems on X, formerly known as Twitter, and said the company “resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
A senior official with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told reporters Tuesday that the agency was “not aware of any specific election nexus nor any specific malicious cyberactivity nexus to the outage.”
Meta, founded by Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook in 2004, serves billions of users. Updates on the outage status of Meta products are available here.