Facebook has experienced a significant global outage, affecting its main app and website, as well as Facebook Messenger, with users being automatically logged out and unable to log back in.
Users attempting to access the services were met with error messages such as ‘an unexpected error occurred’ or ‘something went wrong’, indicating the company was working on a fix.
While other Meta services like Instagram and WhatsApp appeared to remain largely online, some products, including Instagram’s website, also suffered from related issues.
The problems began around 6.45am Pacific time, which is 2.45pm in the UK, with reports of outages spanning across the world.
Meta does not maintain an official status page for its consumer products, and its business tools status page was not updated to reflect the widespread disruption
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