Global Outage Hits Meta-Owned Platforms Facebook and Instagram
Facebook and Instagram, owned by Meta, are facing widespread outages today, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to access the platforms. The outage was initially reported by Downdetector.com, which detected outages by collating status reports from various sources, with over 300,000 reports for Facebook and more than 20,000 for Instagram. Meta has yet to comment on the situation.
Hacking Fears As Outage Leaves Users Unable To Access Accounts
The outage appears to be global, with users impacted across the globe as users from countries including the US, Brazil, the UK and Australia took to X to express their concern, which is now trending on the platform with the hashtags #facebookdown and #instagramdown. Many users feared that they were being hacked as a result of the outage, which has left people logged out of their accounts and unable to log back in.
Facebook has approximately 2 billion daily users, and Instagram has around 500 million. While the Meta-owned platforms have faced individual outages in recent week, but this is the first time users have seen both social media platforms go down at the same time.
