I considered sharing that information, but thought better of it because it was so new in the outage that I wondered if that explanation would be the right one. Hence, I deferred to something I’ve advocated for, a longtime a Holdeman quote: “Remember the first report is almost always wrong.” And, in this case, it was.
See below for the sequence of events, which did not include any external sources acting in nefarious ways.
“Facebook goes down: What happened, and what happens next”