Zoom is down

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Zoom is suffering from a major outage, preventing people from connecting to video calls or even accessing its website. As shown by data on Downdetector, the outage appeared to have started around 3PM ET. Users across X are posting about the outage, with some getting an “Unable to Connect” error message when entering meetings, and others unable to sign in at all. Though I’m able to open the Zoom app on Mac, I receive an error message when trying to sign in with Google. Instead of displaying a sign-in page within my browser, the page reads: “This site can’t be reached. Check to see if there is a typo in google.zoom.com.” Zoom’s website displays a 502 Bad Gateway error. Screenshot: The Verge The Zoom website is also completely down, as it displays a 502 Bad Gateway error. It’s still not clear how widespread the outage is, or how long it ... Read full article.