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A bunch of Meta apps are down right now. For many staffers at The Verge, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads aren’t loading right now and are showing error messages when you try to load them. Reports across Bluesky, X, and Reddit show that many people see the same thing.
On Facebook, it simply says “We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.”
Downdetector is showing big and sudden spikes for Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram with a lot of people affected by the outages. On the Instagram Downdetector page, for example, there have been more than 70,000 reports of issues with the platform, indicating that this is a massive and widespread problem. And more than 100,000 reports have apparently come in about Facebook.
Meta didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
This big outage follows another large Meta outage from March that took down Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Meta also saw a major outage affecting Instagram and Facebook in October 2022.