Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, all owned by Meta, experienced widespread issues Wednesday afternoon, with thousands of users reporting outages on DownDetector.
On Instagram's Downdetector page, over 70,000 users have reported issues, signaling a significant and widespread outage. Similarly, Facebook has seen more than 100,000 reports, highlighting the scale of the disruption.
Most reported problems include the following on Downdetector:
- Facebook: app, website and server connection
- Instagram: app, website and server connection
- Facebook Messenger: app, login, sending messages
- Threads: app, website, server connection
- Whatsapp: app, login, sending messages
This outage comes months after another large Meta disruption in March, which affected Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Meta previously experienced a major outage impacting Instagram and Facebook in October 2022 as well.
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