Facebook and Instagram, owned by Meta, experiencing outages for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide
On Tuesday, Facebook and Instagram, both owned by Meta Platforms, experienced a global outage affecting hundreds of thousands of users, as reported by Downdetector.com.
The outage began around 10 a.m. ET, with more than 300,000 reports of outages on Facebook and about 40,000 on Instagram, according to the site.
“We know people are having trouble accessing our services. We’re working on that now,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X’s social media.
Meta’s status dashboard showed that there were also problems with the API of WhatsApp Business. There were about 200 reports of outages in the WhatsApp application Downdetector. It tracks outages by aggregating status reports from multiple sources, including users.
The outage was one of the most popular topics on X, formerly Twitter, with several users saying they were suddenly logged out of the Meta-owned social media platforms.
