Are Facebook and Instagram down? What to know about the Meta outage

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.

ZDNET's key takeaways

• Widespread outage reports Friday morning.
• Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger appeared affected.
• Meta has not yet explained the disruption.

Facebook is having a chaotic end to the week, with several users reporting widespread problems across Meta-owned apps Friday morning. Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger all appeared to start having trouble around 10:15 am ET.

Downdetector is showing more than 80,000 reports of problems with Facebook, while Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp also appear to have spikes in user complaints. Downdetector and ZDNET are both owned by Ziff Davis.

Also: Is Facebook adding Gen Z phrases to your shared posts? You're not alone, bestie. Here's what's happening.

As of right now, Meta has not publicly explained what is causing the disruption. When I checked, Facebook's mobile appwas working, but the desktop site gave me an error. Instagram would not load...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to zdnet.com. To see the full text click HERE