Overview
- Users around the United States reported large-scale access problems that left feeds and media unable to load and prevented normal use of Marketplace.
- Crowd-sourced outage tracker Downdetector showed a sudden spike of user reports, with roughly 17,000 for Facebook and about 6,400 for Instagram.
- A reporter for Tom's Guide also encountered a Marketplace failure and confirmed the surge of reports on Downdetector.
- Meta's official status page continued to display no known issues and the company had not posted an explanation at the time of reporting.
- The outage remains unconfirmed by Meta so the scope and cause are uncertain and users should expect updates from the company or a technical postmortem to provide definitive details.