Facebook and Instagram face global disruption


A phone screen shows the Facebook app and the Instagram app.— Reuters/file

Social media sites Facebook and Instagram are reportedly down around the world.

Real-time internet and social media monitoring and disruption service Downdetector.pk reported the outage of Meta-owned social sites worldwide around 8:16 p.m.

— Downhill detector
— Downhill detector

Instagram users were unable to view content on the image-sharing platform because a “Something went wrong” message appeared every time they tried to access the site.

— Geographic news
— Geographic news

Meanwhile, login sessions on Facebook and Messenger expired when users logged out of the apps. They were unable to “log in” again when a pop-up appeared saying “an unexpected error occurred” while trying to access Facebook.


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