(NEXSTAR) – Facebook and Instagram users were locked out of their accounts Tuesday morning during a widespread outage of the social media platforms.
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads — all owned by Meta — were down Tuesday shortly after 9 a.m. CT, DownDetector reports. Users were either unable to load new posts or were logged out and unable to log back in. The issues appeared to begin resolving for users about 90 minutes later.
Andy Stone, Meta’s head of communications, addressed the outage on X, saying, "Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience."
Stone did not provide any additional details.
London-based internet monitoring firm Netblocks said the problems appeared to be "related to login sessions in multiple countries.” But the firm, which advocates for internet freedom, said there was no sign of “country-level internet disruptions or filtering,” which are typically imposed by governments.
Users report issues accessing Facebook, Instagram, more Cybersecurity expert Matthew Green said the outage appears to go beyond Meta.
“There are a number of services having trouble with at least parts of their systems, particularly the ability to log into websites,” said Green, an associate professor of computer science and member of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute. “This may indicate a common cause, like a failure at a major cloud services provider. At the moment nobody knows exactly what’s happening.”
Nexstar reached out to Meta for comment on the outage's cause, but hadn't heard back. This story will be updated as we learn more.
Nexstar's Michael Bartiromo and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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(NEXSTAR) – Facebook and Instagram users were locked out of their accounts Tuesday morning during a widespread outage of the social media platforms.
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads — all owned by Meta — were down Tuesday shortly after 9 a.m. CT, DownDetector reports. Users were either unable to load new posts or were logged out and unable to log back in. The issues appeared to begin resolving for users about 90 minutes later.
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