A debilitating service outage has hit several of Meta's apps, with thousands of people across the United States having reported issues accessing their Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accounts.

More than 150,000 users reported outages across Meta’s WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram apps as of Wednesday afternoon, according to DownDetector.com. Instagram said its services were back ...

Outages began rising rapidly around 12:30 p.m., with more than 100,000 Facebook users and tens of thousands of Instagram users reporting problems by around 1:10 p.m.

There were about 4,000 reports of outages on Downdetector for Facebook as of 4:20 p.m. Eastern. WhatsApp users also reported issues with sending messages, according to Downdetector. WhatsApp ...

Outage tracker Downdetector shows big spikes for Instagram with 70,000 outage reports above average and Facebook, which had ...

Meta owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Whatsapp. Downdetector showed 8,234 reports of outages from Whatsapp users. Among those, 82 percent reported problems with sending messages.

Facebook is down and users are reporting outages to downdetector, the site that reports problems with popular websites. The Facebook spike started shortly after 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The biggest ...

Downdetector showed that 2,222 reports were received about WhatsApp from users in Pakistan at 11:04pm, indicating problems with the service. A Dawn.com staffer was also unable to connect to the ...