Facebook and Instagram down – updates: Meta gives reason for worldwide outage today

Kklogictech

Facebook and Instagram have been hit by a worldwide outage that has left potentially millions of people unable to access their accounts.

Users found they were mysteriously logged out and not able to log back in, or could not open the app at all.

The outage appears to be global, according to tracking website Down Detector.

Follow for the latest on the ongoing outage.

Outage was not a cyber attack

#CyberAttack is trending on Twitter and many are expressing panic that their accounts have been hacked.

But there is no reason to think it was anything other than a standard (if very dramatic) technical problem caused by Meta itself. And that is what the company has seemingly indicated (see below).

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