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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by m0guz on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:53AM (#28748339)
Ironic enough; status.fb.com also down.
Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by awinter-py on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:32PM (#28749870)
need a status.status.fb.com to indicate the status of the status

and / or an S3 bucket with a json blob the apps can pull to at least tell users 'here's what's up'

Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by devenvdev on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:39PM (#28751127)
Reminds me of S3 outage a couple of years ago when AWS status page went down because it was relying on... S3...
Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by ricardo81 on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:58PM (#28749383)
It uses the same nameservers as facebook.com, same point of failure.

Seems like another poster posted finer details regarding BGP/peering which is ultimately causing the issue.