Millions of users woke up on Friday to find Instagram refusing to load, throwing up blank feeds, repeated error messages, and locked accounts greeting them in place of their usual scrolls. Meta's flagship platforms, Facebook and Instagram, suffered a massive global outage, with users unable to log in and widespread technical disruptions reported across multiple regions.
According to outage tracking data from Downdetector, more than 62,000 reports for Facebook and over 8,000 reports for Instagram were recorded during the peak of the disruption, indicating a major service failure affecting users worldwide. Meta, as of the time of writing, had not disclosed a technical root cause.
