Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Hit by Massive Worldwide Outage

by Justin Erickson

Meta’s services, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, experienced a widespread outage affecting users globally today. The disruption prevented users from accessing accounts, sending messages, and refreshing content. Reports of the outage quickly surged, with over 100,000 incidents logged across platforms. Meta acknowledged the issue and stated its teams worked to restore services as quickly as possible. The cause of the outage has not yet been officially disclosed. As of writing, most users are back online and the issue is largely resolved.