Is Facebook down for you? Here's what's going on (Update: Back online) ⁠53%

By Ryan McNeal⁠19%

7/23/2026, 1:59:28 PM

Keywords: Facebook

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Authority, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 38.7% saturation with 58 hits. Analysis detected 336 faulty-reasoning hits from 150 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 51.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠53% (10,363 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 52.70% of the article peer group.

Update: July 23, 2026 (6:58 PM ET): Reports on Downdetector have dwindled, suggesting that the service is no longer experiencing issues. 
Original article: July 23, 2026 (4:59 PM ET): Are you having trouble with Facebook today? 
If pages are loading slowly or not at all, you’re not the only one experiencing these issues. 
The social media site appears to be down for some. 
Facebook users are reporting an outage on Downdetector. 
It appears that the reports started recently, but the number of reports is continuing to grow. 
As a result, it’s unclear just how widespread the problem is. 
According to the heat map, the hardest hit locations appear to be Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Miami. 
We’ll keep an eye on the situation. 
This article will be updated when it appears the service is back online. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 14.0%Ryan McNeal: 3.3%Android Authority: 4.4%Confirmation Bias14.0%This article: 10.7%Ryan McNeal: 0.6%Android Authority: 2.3%Anchoring Bias10.7%This article: 22.7%Ryan McNeal: 3.4%Android Authority: 3.7%Availability Heuristic22.7%This article: 13.3%Ryan McNeal: 1.8%Android Authority: 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic13.3%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 1.0%Android Authority: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 1.8%Android Authority: 3.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 13.3%Ryan McNeal: 4.5%Android Authority: 5.6%Framing Effect13.3%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 1.5%Android Authority: 1.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.4%Android Authority: 1.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.4%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 8.7%Ryan McNeal: 6.7%Android Authority: 7.0%Optimism Bias8.7%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.9%Android Authority: 1.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 6.7%Ryan McNeal: 0.9%Android Authority: 6.3%Negativity Bias6.7%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.1%Android Authority: 1.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.4%Android Authority: 0.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.8%Android Authority: 4.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 15.3%Ryan McNeal: 1.6%Android Authority: 2.2%Recency Bias15.3%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.2%Android Authority: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 18.7%Ryan McNeal: 2.8%Android Authority: 2.8%Appeal to Authority18.7%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.5%Android Authority: 2.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.2%Android Authority: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 11.3%Ryan McNeal: 3.2%Android Authority: 8.7%Hasty Generalization11.3%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 11.3%Ryan McNeal: 0.6%Android Authority: 0.9%Bandwagon11.3%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 1.0%Android Authority: 3.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.3%Android Authority: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 24.7%Ryan McNeal: 1.0%Android Authority: 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)24.7%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.1%Android Authority: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.2%Android Authority: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.4%Android Authority: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 1.7%Android Authority: 6.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 6.7%Ryan McNeal: 1.7%Android Authority: 3.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)6.7%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.2%Android Authority: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.3%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 38.7%Ryan McNeal: 5.4%Android Authority: 2.1%Unattributed Quote38.7%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.4%Android Authority: 0.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 8.0%Ryan McNeal: 2.4%Android Authority: 12.4%Biased Writer Voice8.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.5%Android Authority: 2.5%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 0.0%Android Authority: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ryan McNeal: 6.9%Android Authority: 7.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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