"Resolving Widespread Disruption: Facebook and Instagram Outage"

Meta's platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, experienced a widespread outage due to a "technical issue," affecting thousands of users, but the problem was resolved within around two hours. As many as 500,000 Facebook users reported issues, with similar reports for Instagram and Facebook Messenger. Meta's competitor to Elon Musk’s X, Threads, also experienced disruptions. The company assured users that the outage was not due to malicious activity and apologized for any inconvenience. Service outages like this are relatively infrequent but can have a significant impact on users.