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.

Millions Of Users Locked Out As Facebook, Instagram Suffer Global Service Disruption

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

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