There appears to have been a significant outage of parent firm Meta’s services, affecting Facebook and Instagram.
Error warnings were displayed to users attempting to access the websites and applications, preventing them from refreshing their feeds normally.
Over 300,000 complaints of outages for Facebook and over 20,000 incidents for Instagram were found on the tracking website Downdetector.
Around the world, several nations are impacted.
We have reached out to Meta for a response. According to its own status page, the products are operating as anticipated.