Facebook, Instagram outages affect users worldwide

Filip Timotija
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Social media platforms owned by Meta experienced outage issues Tuesday, affecting users around the world.

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said a “technical” issue was the culprit for the difficulties users encountered and it has been resolved.

“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services,” Stone wrote on X at midday. “We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

Users trying to access Facebook found themselves logged out when trying to use the platform on desktop, while mobile users were met with a message saying their session had expired.

Instagram users were able to access content on the platform, but they received notifications that they were unable to refresh their feeds. Desktop users encountered the message “Something went wrong.”

Thousands of people also found issues with trying to use Facebook Messenger. Users of Threads, another platform owned by Meta, were not able to access their homepages, affecting thousands of people, according to DownDetector.

Meta status page showed “major disruptions” for Facebook & Instagram Shops, Meta Admin Center, Facebook Login, Graph API, WhatsApp Business API and Marketing API, as of 11:53 a.m. EST.

It is not immediately clear what caused the issues.

Updated at 12:40 p.m.

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