Meta Hit by Major Outage Across Facebook and Instagram
Meta confirms widespread service disruption leaving users unable to access Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms.
Meta's empire went dark on Friday. The company confirmed a widespread outage knocking users off Facebook, Instagram, and its other services.
The social media giant acknowledged the disruption publicly, stating it was aware that people were having trouble accessing its platforms. No specific cause was immediately provided.
The outage hit across Meta's family of apps, which collectively serve billions of users worldwide. For a company that dominates social media traffic globally, even brief downtime translates to massive disruption — for users, creators, and the advertisers who fund the whole machine.
Meta's stock trades under the ticker META.O. The company has not yet disclosed the root cause or provided a detailed timeline for full restoration of services.
We'll update this story as Meta shares more details on what went wrong.