Meta properties, which includes Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, are all down right now in what appears to be related to login sessions.
All three of Meta’s social media sites are either not loading correctly or booting users back out to the login screen and not letting them log back in. On Facebook, it can appear as though a password is incorrect, but multiple attempts to reset still does not allow users to log in.
On Instagram, login is working but feeds are not refreshing. Even if feeds are working, stories and comments may not load correctly. Over on Threads is a similar situation, although the entire site appears down for PetaPixel staffers who are being greeted with simply the message, “something went wrong, try again later.”
Down Detector is showing a huge spike in outages reported in the last 15 minutes, which is further indication that something isn’t right over at Meta.
The last time Meta apps experienced this level of an outage was back in 2021 when Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR all experienced an outage, although that one was far worse: the websites weren’t just not operating, they were sending back major server errors to users.
The 2021 outage also lasted for a very long time, as the sites remained offline for more than five hours before service slowly started to be restored. It was so serious that fixing the issue required the dispatch of a small team to Facebook’s data center in Santa Clara, California to manually reset the servers.
PetaPixel reached out to Meta regarding today’s outage but did not immediately hear back.
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