{"id":557542,"date":"2026-07-19T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557542\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:08:08","slug":"facebook-and-instagram-down-in-mass-outage-for-users-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/557542\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Instagram down in mass outage for users \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meta\/\">Meta\u2019s<\/a> \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/instagram\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/instagram\/\">Instagram<\/a> social networks appeared to \u200csuffer some outages on Sunday, with users globally \u200breporting issues with the app and website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">According to DownDetector, there were \u2060thousands of reports filed by Facebook and Instagram users on Sunday morning, with \u206063 per cent of \u200busers facing issues \u200baccessing the website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Meta did not immediately \u200creply to a request for \u200bcomment sent by email. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s \u200cFacebook and Instagram social networks appeared to \u200csuffer some outages on Sunday, with users globally \u200breporting issues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,823,61,542,60,1226,235774,53454,15300],"class_list":["post-557542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-facebook","tag-ie","tag-instagram","tag-ireland","tag-meta","tag-phone-apps","tag-threads","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}