Facebook, Instagram down during outage; thousands affected

you were just kicked out of your Facebook or Instagram account while scrolling, you’re not alone.

Meta’s social media platforms are currently not working, with both Instagram and Facebook pulling up “failure to load” error pages.


It reported over 352,000 outages at 10:49 a.m. Apps also appear to be affected.

expired" or "unexpected error" message. This issue appears to be affecting users of the sites globally. Downdetector, which monitors outages across the globe, is showing over 160,000 reports of Facebook being down. Instagram stands at over 16,000 reports making this one of the biggest issues for Meta (which owns both of these platforms) in years.