Are Facebook and Instagram Down? What to Know
Are Facebook and Instagram Down? What to Know
Users are reporting problems with the Meta social media apps.
Jon Reed
Dashia Milden
Users of some of the most popular social media apps reported widespread issues Friday morning. The problems included Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger, all of which are owned by Meta.
Downdetector showed more than 80,000 reports of issues with Facebook around 10:15 a.m. ET Friday. Downdetector and CNET are both owned by the same parent company, Ziff Davis.
CNET has reached out to Meta for details.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Facebook stories is down on the mobile app for me
By Dashia Milden
Facebook stories displays an error message on the mobile app.
Screenshot by Dashia Milden/CNETFacebook seems to be working fine on desktop for me, but my mobile app is definitely lagging. I opened the app to find a new message where my stories usually display. The mesage asks me to try again, but doesn't refresh when I do. Here's what you might see on your app.
Outage numbers reported to NordVPN remain high as of 10:30 a.m. ET.
Here's what I'm seeing
By Jon Reed
This is what happens when I try to log into Facebook.
Screenshot by Jon Reed/CNETI'm apparently able to access Instagram, but trying to log into Facebook in the browser on my phone gave me an endless loading screen.
I've also been able to see messages in Messenger, although they've been slow to load.
We've seen a massive, sudden spike in outage reports across the platforms where users can say they're experiencing issues. The traffic seems to be causing issues even for those sites.
NordVPN shows thousands of users with outages
By Dashia Milden
The VPN provider NordVPN lets you report outages by clicking the Report button on its page. NordVPN reports that between 9:30 a.m and 10 a.m. ET, 27,649 users reported Facebook being down. No users reported an outage on Friday morning prior to that.
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