Thousands of Meta users worldwide report Facebook, Instagram issues
Thousands of users globally reported widespread outages across Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms. The cause remains unconfirmed, though experts suspect a failure in shared backend systems.
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Meta's platforms are critical infrastructure for global communication and digital commerce, making outages a significant disruption to daily life.
Thousands of Facebook and Instagram users around the world reported service outages on Meta platforms on Sunday, though the cause of the disruption remained unclear.Users reported login failures, inaccessible accounts, and difficulties loading content.On Facebook, messages state that accounts are temporarily unavailable due to a site error, while on Instagram, reports concern several of the app's core functions.Users report that Reels remain stuck or fail to play, new photos and posts do not appear, and pulling down the screen to refresh the feed does not update the content. For other users, a completely white screen opens, sometimes without any error message explaining what went wrong.In some cases, the application itself opens but only displays old content that was previously loaded on the device.
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