Doubt its malicious, from what i understand the networking team there may have pushed out a patch which was bad, and said patch also ended up locking them out of any way to manage the networking hardware remotely. Which means only the pajeets in the data centers with physical access to the hardware are able to fix it.
Still though, this is so fun to watch, what a great day to see a cancer of the internet offline for so long. Facebook employees and investors are absolutely seething right now. I hope these platforms being offline for so long wakes up some people to how much time they spend on this shit and that living without it isnt so bad