Facebook and several other platforms owned by Meta experienced a worldwide outage on Friday, leaving millions of users unable to access their accounts. According to reports on Downdetector, the disruption began shortly after a surge of users reported error messages on both web and mobile versions of the social media apps.
Meta Services Affected
Users also noted issues with Instagram and the WhatsApp desktop feature, indicating that the outage affected multiple Meta services simultaneously. The outage caused widespread inconvenience, with many turning to alternative platforms to communicate.
Previous Outage Comparison
In February, the social media platform X was down for thousands of users in the United States and Britain, highlighting the vulnerability of major social networks to technical failures.
This is a developing story, and updates are expected as Meta investigates the cause of the disruption.
