Meta’s social platforms

Meta's trio of social platforms - Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger - experienced a sweeping global outage starting at approximately 10:45am ET. The outage impacted regions across the US, the UK, parts of Europe, Asia, and beyond. The majority of distress signals were related to Facebook, with Messenger and Instagram also affected. Users migrated to Elon Musk's X platform to express frustrations and seek solidarity. The outage prompted scrutiny of Meta's infrastructure, with speculation that an internal system failure may have played a role. Comparisons were made to a colossal outage three years ago that resulted in significant revenue loss for Facebook.