WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Recover from Global Outage

Meta's services were restored within hours after a widespread disruption affected thousands globally.

WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook experienced a global outage affecting thousands of users.
The outage began around 2 p.m. ET on April 3, 2024, with WhatsApp being the first to go down, followed by Instagram and Facebook.
Meta confirmed the issue and worked on a fix, successfully restoring service by just after 4 p.m. ET.
The outage impacted key business services including Meta's Ads Manager, Messenger Platform, and WhatsApp Business API.
This marks the second significant outage for Meta's services in just over a month, with the previous incident occurring in March 2024.