The outages appear to have started at around 6:30AM ET this morning, and come just a month after Facebook experienced its worst outage ever. WhatsApp messages aren’t being sent or received, and users of Facebook’s main services have headed to Twitter to share that they’re having issues. Facebook and Instagram are both inaccessible, with news feeds refusing to refresh and the main domain unavailable. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” Facebook wrote in the tweet.Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are down worldwide.įacebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all experiencing issues this morning for users worldwide. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. In a statement posted on Twitter, the social media giant acknowledged the outages. Last week, the company’s Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis testified before a Senate committee. The company has faced intense criticism since the Wall Street Journal ran a series of stories, including one that said Facebook’s internal research found that Instagram had a negative impact on the mental health of teenagers. The sites and apps being down come around the same time as a whistleblower coming forward and providing documents that she says show that the company, which owns all three, is aware of harm it causes. The outage is also affecting Oculus, the company’s virtual reality platform. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.” Users can still open Instagram, but the app will not refresh feeds. Update 4:45pm CT: It appears that some Facebook services are slowly coming back online.įacebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are experiencing outages on Monday afternoon.ĭown Detector, which crowdsources people who indicate problems on websites, shows a spike in people reporting Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp being down starting around 11:00am CT.Ī message on Facebook’s website reads: “Sorry, something went wrong.
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