Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp are down in major Meta outage
More than 150,000 users have reported outages across Meta’s WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram apps as of Wednesday afternoon, according to DownDetector.com.
More than 96,000 Facebook users reported issues accessing the app, with reports spiking just before 1 p.m., according to the website, which tracks service outages.
More than 69,000 Instagram users reported similar issues accessing the photo app, and more than 12,000 users reported an outage across WhatsApp, Meta’s secure messaging app, according to DownDetector.com.
The reports came from users across the country, with a large concentration of reports coming from users in cities like New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to maps on the website.