Facebook, Instagram down in latest major worldwide outage


Facebook and Instagram are down, but Meta’s status page doesn’t report any issues.

Key takeaways:

Meta’s popular platforms, Facebook and Instagram, are down across the United States and Europe, with users unable to access their feeds.

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Cybernews was unable to connect to Facebook and Instagram as both platforms struggled to load feeds.

Users also report being logged out of Messenger when attempting to use the app. Meta’s business suite also displayed issues with loading updates.

However, Meta's status page showed that there were no issues effecting its service at the time of writing.

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Screenshot from Meta Status Page

Meta's status page has only reported disruptions with Facebook Ads Manager which was showing "high disruptions."

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Screenshot from Meta Status Page

Downdetector also displayed issues. When trying to verify the outages, the platform would return a 404 - Page Not Found message.

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Screenshot from DownDetector
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Cybernews consulted another website monitoring service, “Down For Everyone or Just Me,” which showed that Facebook is experiencing issues that started only 33 minutes ago.

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Screenshot from Down For Everyone or Just Me

The graph showing “Live Facebook Problems” shows that nearly 15,000 people have reported issues.

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Screenshot from Down for Everyone or Just Me

Downdetector eventually displayed problems with Facebook, Instagram, and other major Meta services like WhatsApp.

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Screenshot from DownDetector

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