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Facebook and Instagram Experiencing Widespread Outage

Thousands of user reports say core features like feeds, photos and Marketplace are failing with no acknowledgement from Meta.

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.