Meta had a bad Friday morning. A major Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger for users around the world, starting shortly before 10am ET. By midday it was recovering, unevenly, region by region.
The trouble appeared to begin on WhatsApp, then spread. Facebook users were abruptly logged out, met with a “Query Error” or a “Sorry, something went wrong” message, and unable to log back in. Others could open the app but not post, comment, react, search, or load Stories and Marketplace.
What Down Detector shows
The outage-tracking site Down Detector logged a sharp spike. Facebook bore the brunt, with reports passing 130,000; Instagram logged around 9,500, and WhatsApp far fewer. Across all three, most people flagged problems with the app, then login.
Those numbers are self-reported, so they track complaints, not Meta’s own data. But the reports came in from far beyond the US, from the Philippines and Taiwan to Australia, Spain, and South Africa, which points to something central rather than a local glitch.
