Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads – appear to have broken in a huge outage.The company’s systems appear to have suffered a major technical issue at around 6pm UK time, or 10 am local pacific time,

At 1:20 p.m. ET, Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, showed over 105,00 reports of Facebook not working, with majority of those saying the issue comes from the app. The website also received 11,000 reports of problems with Facebook Messenger and 70,590 reports that Instagram was down, with 78 percent noting the issue stemmed from the app.

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram have been reported as down by tens of thousands of people as plenty have suffered from services outages. The website DownDetector has highlighted a sudden spike in reports of the social media and messaging sites going down.

Downdetector showed a large spike in people complaining that social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and other Meta applications were affected by an outage

A huge spike in searches on Downdetector shows thousands of people reporting an issue with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp this evening. The social media apps are down for many users across the globe due to a technical issue. Facebook outages were first reported at about 6pm today reached more than 100,000 complaints of an issue.

Meta appears to be having a widespread outage across its social media and messaging apps, with Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads all experiencing problems loading.

Meta apps like Instagram, Facebook and Threads are experiencing issues on Wednesday afternoon as error messages are being reported by people across the internet. Outage tracker Downdetector shows big spikes for Instagram with 70,000 outage reports above average and Facebook, which had over 100,000 outage reports, as of Wednesday afternoon.

Meta's Facebook was down for more than 50,000 users on Wednesday, while Instagram was down for more than 23,000 users, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. (Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru;

For many staffers at The Verge, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads aren’t loading right now and are showing error messages when you try to load them. Reports across Bluesky, X, and Reddit show that many people see the same thing.