June 12, 2026
By Adegboyega Adeleye
Facebook and Instagram users across the world experienced difficulties accessing the social media platforms on Friday, with thousands reporting login failures, loading issues and service disruptions in what appeared to be a widespread outage affecting Meta-owned services.
According to outage-tracking platform Downdetector, user reports surged across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger as the disruption spread through multiple countries.
Downdetector displayed alerts stating: “User reports show possible problems with Facebook” and “User reports show possible problems with Instagram,” indicating a sharp increase in complaints from users attempting to access the platforms.
