Facebook Down: Global Outage Hits on the Morning of the SpaceX IPO
Facebook is returning errors worldwide. We verified the outage directly. Here is what is known — and whether it has anything to do with today's record SpaceX listing.
TL;DRFacebook went down worldwide on the morning of June 12, 2026 — our own checks returned HTTP 500 errors at 13:54 UTC, and outage trackers logged 300,000+ reports. Instagram appears less affected, and Meta has not said what broke. The outage landed the same morning as SpaceX's record $75 billion Nasdaq debut, but there is no evidence the two are connected.
Facebook is down. Since this morning, facebook.com has been returning a "Sorry, something went wrong" error for users around the world. We verified it ourselves: at 13:54 UTC on June 12, 2026, facebook.com answered our direct request with an HTTP 500 server error, and a fresh browser session landed on Facebook's error page ("Facebook | Error"). Meta has not yet said what broke or when it will be fixed.
The outage happens to land on the same morning as the largest IPO in history — SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq today. There is no evidence the two events are connected; we explain below why people are asking anyway.
| What is down | Facebook (facebook.com and apps), per user reports worldwide |
| Our direct check | HTTP 500 + "Sorry, something went wrong" at 13:54 UTC, June 12, 2026 |
| Loaded normally in our checks; outage trackers show elevated reports | |
| Scale | 300,000+ Downdetector reports for Facebook, per outage coverage |
| Meta statement | None at the time of writing |
| SpaceX IPO link | No evidence of any connection — same-day timing only |
What we verified ourselves
Rather than repeat social-media reports, we tested Meta's sites directly from our own servers at 13:54 UTC:
- facebook.com — HTTP 500 (server error) in 0.4 seconds, with the body text "Sorry, something went wrong."
- m.facebook.com — redirected (301), then failed the same way.
- instagram.com — returned HTTP 200 and loaded normally in our checks, though outage trackers show elevated problem reports there too.
How widespread is the outage?
Outage tracker Downdetector logged more than 300,000 reports for Facebook and over 20,000 for Instagram, according to coverage of the incident, with reports coming from multiple countries. Meta has not posted an acknowledgment on its own status channels or its accounts on other platforms at the time of writing.
Is this connected to the SpaceX IPO?
There is no evidence of any connection. The reason people are asking is timing: Facebook failed on the same morning SpaceX listed on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX — an offering of roughly 555.6 million shares priced at $135 each, raising about $75 billion at a valuation near $1.75 trillion, the largest IPO ever priced. Two enormous tech stories colliding in one news cycle invites speculation, but same-day timing is not causation, and nothing in the public record links Meta's infrastructure failure to the listing. We will update this story if that changes.
What has Meta said?
Nothing yet. As of publication, Meta has not explained the cause or given a restoration estimate. In previous large outages — including the famous October 2021 BGP withdrawal that took Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp offline for roughly six hours — Meta published a post-incident engineering explanation after service was restored. We expect the same pattern here.
What you can do
- Don't reset your password. The error is on Meta's side; credential resets won't help and create phishing exposure.
- Be wary of "Facebook is back, log in here" links — outages are prime time for phishing campaigns.
- Check an independent tracker such as Downdetector rather than repeatedly reloading.
Sources
- Geeks Around Globe direct server checks and browser capture, June 12, 2026, 13:54–13:55 UTC (primary)
- Game Rant — Facebook is Down Right Now
- Asbury Park Press (USA Today Network) — Query error on Facebook
- NPR — SpaceX blasts off with a record-breaking $75 billion IPO
- CNBC — SpaceX targets fixed $135 IPO price
- Fortune — SpaceX's record IPO has Wall Street torn
This is a developing story, first published June 12, 2026 at 14:00 UTC. We will update it as Meta responds or service is restored.
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