Meta is currently experiencing a major outage across all its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Messenger, and WhatsApp.
As noted by Downdetector.com, there has been a sharp increase in reported outages from users of these various services.
The outages appear to have started shortly before 1pm Eastern and are being experienced by a significant number of users.
Affected services include:
- Threads
- Facebook Messenger
Meta has not yet released an update or comment on the outage, but we will keep you posted when they do share something.
Users who try to load these services are encountering a variety of issues, both on the web and in their respective apps.
Problems being encountered range from:
- not being able to use the service’s app or website at all
- not being able to post content on the service
- seeing errors like all Facebook posts showing zero comments
- and/or loading the service but finding it extremely slow and laggy
More incoming…
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