Meta's social media and messaging platforms faced a widespread disruption, with users across several countries reporting issues accessing Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The outage triggered a sharp rise in complaints on service-tracking platforms as users encountered problems ranging from feed-loading failures to messaging disruptions. Complaint volumes quickly surged on outage-tracking platforms as users turned to alternative channels to check whether the services were down globally. Meta later acknowledged the issue and said it was working to restore normal operations.

A major Meta outage hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger worldwide. Down Detector logged 130,000+ reports before service began to return.

Users worldwide say Meta’s Facebook and Instagram are down; the company has not yet commented on the reports

This isn't good for Meta users

Facebook down, several Instagram users report issues amid Meta outage | World News