The timing of the outage may be pushing speculation in that direction: Yesterday, the whistleblower who recently leaked internal Facebook documents to the Wall Street Journal appeared on 60 Minutes to discuss her claim that the company chooses profits over curbing hate speech and misinformation. The more dramatic theory is that a person or group has intentionally taken Facebook down, but there's currently no evidence to suggest that an attack has occurred despite all the speculation on social media sites (excluding Facebook).

A now-deleted Reddit post from a person who claimed to have inside knowledge of the situation said that the issue was being caused by a BGP configuration error which required physical hardware access to repair.

The simplest potential explanation is that someone screwed up. The Oculus website is also down.Īt around 1 pm Pacific, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer tweeted that the outage is being caused by 'networking issues.' That's as much as Facebook has said about the cause of the problems. When I launch the Oculus PC application, it says that it detects no internet connection. 'The teams are hard at work getting things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.' 'We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,' Oculus wrote in one thread.

In numerous Reddit threads, many Quest owners say they have been able to use their headsets during the outage-to play VR games on Steam, for instance-but some say they can't load their Oculus libraries, and those who just took a Quest 2 out of the box have reported that they're unable to complete the initial setup. 'We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.'įacebook owns VR headset maker Oculus, and controversially requires Oculus Quest users to log in with a Facebook account. 'We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,' wrote Facebook on Twitter.

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