This is probably a legit coincidence, but sort of interesting anyway. Anon got curious what time FB went offline Monday. An NPR article tagged it as “around 11:40 AM ET.”
Anon dug “around” the drops at 1140 for FB references, and these are the ones that came up: 1135, 1138, 1139.
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043211171/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-outage-business-impact