Facebook, Instagram down for some users as Meta experiences spike in outages for second time two weeks

Facebook, Instagram and Messenger were down Wednesday, with nearly two thousand users worldwide reporting that they couldn’t log in to the popular social media platforms, according to DownDetector.

Reports that the Meta-owned sites began to spike around 10 am ET and quickly snowballed, DownDetector reported.

The tracking site showed that 70% of the roughly 1,700 who reported an outage couldn’t log in to the apps, while 22% had trouble accessing the websites. Another 8% were having log-in issues.

The Post has sought comment from Meta.

Meta users also took to rival platform X to report the outages and ask if others were experiencing the same issues.

This is the second time in just over two weeks that Meta’s widely used social media platforms have suffered outages.

A technical issue caused widespread login issues for a few hours across Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger platforms on March 5.

Andy Stone, Meta’s head of communications, acknowledged the issues on X, formerly known as Twitter, and said the company “resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

Users reported being locked out of their Facebook accounts and feeds on the platform as well as Threads and Instagram were not refreshing.

A senior official with the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told reporters that the agency was “not aware of any specific election nexus nor any specific malicious cyber activity nexus to the outage.”

This is a developing story.