{"id":264483,"date":"2026-06-12T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264483\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:53:11","slug":"facebook-and-instagram-down-as-meta-products-hit-with-widespread-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264483\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Instagram down as Meta products hit with widespread outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of users appeared to be affected by a widespread outage impacting <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/10\/business\/meta-google-denied-new-trial-in-youth-social-media-addiction-case\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta\u2019s <\/a>Instagram, Facebook and Messenger on Friday, with reports flooding social media and outage-tracking site Downdetector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/instagram\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Downdetector showed a sharp spike<\/a> in Instagram reports, rising from a baseline of 25 complaints to several thousand as users reported being logged out, unable to load the app or unable to access their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Meta confirmed the outage, with the company\u2019s communications veep Andy Stone <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/andymstone\/status\/2065436770368413773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">writing on X<\/a>: \u201cWe\u2019re aware people are currently having trouble accessing our services. We\u2019re working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated users quickly took to Downdetector\u2019s comment section to vent. One user wrote that they were met with a \u201cBlank page,\u201d while another said they were \u201clogged out of my account out of nowhere\u201d and unable to sign back in.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39655925\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AFP_343W8VA.jpg\" alt=\"A smartphone displaying the Facebook logo and &quot;facebook&quot; against a blurred blue background with a large white Facebook &quot;f&quot; logo.\" class=\"wp-image-39655925\"  \/>Thousands of users appeared to be affected by a widespread outage impacting <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/10\/business\/meta-google-denied-new-trial-in-youth-social-media-addiction-case\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta\u2019s <\/a>Instagram, Facebook and Messenger on Friday. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The outage appeared to stretch beyond Instagram. On X, users reported being kicked out of Facebook and Messenger, only to be greeted by error messages when attempting to log back in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody else just been logged out of Facebook messenger and can\u2019t log back in? Unknown error,\u201d one user posted, a complaint echoed by numerous others.<\/p>\n<p>Another wrote: \u201cFacebook down??? Got logged out and says query error.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some users said both Facebook and Messenger signed them out, while others questioned whether the disruption was global. One post claimed that \u201cFacebook is down globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Post has sought comment from Meta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of users appeared to be affected by a widespread outage impacting Meta\u2019s Instagram, Facebook and Messenger on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,5998,3956,32912,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-264483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-business","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-meta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}