Messenger is often used to coordinate logistics among friends. I would not be surprised if a Meta disruption lead to at least momentary confusion if someone was

Messenger is often used to coordinate logistics among friends. I would not be surprised if a Meta disruption lead to at least momentary confusion if someone was planning on carpooling. Not to mention it messes with "get out the vote" posting. I'm not very conspiracy-minded but this does smell a little weird. At the very least, "there's a big event in the country of one of our biggest userbases, maybe hold off on risky deploys until tomorrow"