If Facebook and Instagram are down for you, you’re not alone. Both of Meta’s largest social media platforms are experiencing widespread outages on Friday morning. Here’s the latest on the ongoing Facebook and Instagram outages…

Is Facebook down?

The Instagram and Facebook outages began shortly after 9:30 a.m. ET/6:30 a.m. PT in the United States, according to widespread reports on other social media platforms like Reddit. The outage appears to be incredibly widespread, affecting Facebook and Instagram users around the globe.

Affected users say they were logged out of their Facebook accounts and are unable to log back in. Facebook for iPhone, for example, erroneously tells users to check their internet connection when trying to log in.

Is Instagram down?