Taylor Swift's Super Tuesday voting message sparks conspiracy theories amid Facebook and Instagram outage

LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK: Pop sensation and fan favorite Taylor Swift urged her fans to vote on Super Tuesday, but the message she was trying to send was misconstrued as several conspiracy theorists bizarrely tried to link her post with a global outage of Facebook and Instagram.

For those who are not aware, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook and Instagram suffered a worldwide outage on March 5, Tuesday. The social media networks were down for more than two hours over a technical issue impacting its users globally. 

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Meta's Facebook, Instagram and Threads were down

Thousands of users reported issues on the Meta sites, including Facebook Messenger and Threads. Social media users trying to post photos or view videos came across "session expired" or "unexpected error" messages.

Following that several people visited the rival site X, formerly known as Twitter, to understand the cause of the problem.

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And amid all other theories, one outlandish theory that emerged is that the 'Karma' singer who is on her Eras Tour shut the Internet down once she posted the Instagram story on voting, as per Express.

Taylor Swift's Super Tuesday post 

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Swift took to her Instagram account with 282 million followers urging them to "make a plan to vote today" on Super Tuesday. She wrote on her Instagram story, "I wanted to remind you guys to vote the people who most represent YOU into power. If you haven't already, make a plan to vote today."

Swift added, "Whether you're in Tennessee or somewhere else in the US, check your polling places and times at vote.org."

March 5 was a pivotal day in the campaign as fifteen states cast their votes to select the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates. Despite her prior support for President Joe Biden in 2020, she never hinted or acknowledged any one candidate her fans should vote for. 

Not long after Taylor's post went up on her Instagram page, the whole site including Threads started experiencing issues. 

Reports state that there were over 550,000 instances of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone made a brief post on X regarding the outage: "Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue ... for everyone who was impacted." 

That did not stop rumor mongers and conspiracy theorists from flooding with false theories behind Swift's post. There is no evidence that Swift is behind it.

Internet blames Taylor Swift's post for IG's global outage

After Taylor Swift posted the 'Super Tuesday' message, Facebook, Messenger, Threads and Instagram experienced worldwide outages. A user wrote on X, "After  Taylor Swift posted this. Facebook, Messenger, Threads and Instagram experienced worldwide outages. Conspiracy Theorists: do your thing."

Another user wrote, "Instagram? down facebook? down Taylor Swift? ATE DOWN."

A user wrote, "Not saying this is a fact, but Taylor Swift posted voting information on her stories and two seconds later I started seeing #facebookdown and #instagramdown 🗳️ If she did cause it… okay queen! 👑"

A user wrote, "Instagram is down?? taylor swifts IMPACT!!! anyways, make sure u vote <3."

Another user wrote, "Taylor Swift told everyone on instagram to vote and then magically instagram and its fellow servers all went down? Sus. 🧐"

A user wrote, "Taylor has the opportunity of doing the funniest thing ever. Instagram, FB everything is down." While another user wrote, "And now Instagram is down. I think Taylor broke the app."

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