Facebook and Instagram hit by global outage affecting millions

Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger experienced significant disruptions across the globe on Tuesday afternoon, with over 100,000 users reporting service failures by 5pm local time. The outages appeared to affect users worldwide, disrupting access to two of the world’s largest social media platforms simultaneously. Meta, the parent company of all three services, confirmed it was aware of the technical issues and working to restore normal service. The company was forced to announce the problems via its rival platform X (formerly Twitter), highlighting the severity of the outage that left its own communication channels unavailable. No immediate explanation was provided for the cause of the disruptions, though Meta’s engineering teams were reportedly mobilised to investigate and resolve the issues as quickly as possible. The incident marks a rare but significant failure for the platforms, which collectively serve billions of users worldwide and are crucial to many businesses and individuals for daily communication and operations.

Source: Ynet — Original article in Hebrew.