Meta's flagship social media platforms, Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram, are grappling with a widespread outage, rendering them inaccessible for users worldwide.
Reports of the disruption emerged around 19:45am PST, impacting both the mobile apps and websites of these platforms. Users attempting to log in are met with rejected passwords, as Facebook promptly logs out its users.
The error message, indicating an expired login, has left countless users frustrated, with subsequent login attempts futile.
Instagram's News Feed is displaying an error message, while Messenger and Threads are also affected by the outage.
Down Detector, a service monitoring online outages, has amassed over 300,000 reports since the onset of the issue. Concurrently, Twitter and other social media platforms are flooded with similar outage reports.
As Meta scrambles to address the outage, users worldwide are left in limbo, awaiting the restoration of their beloved social media platforms.
