Meta outage: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp experience downtime
Mashable • • business
Key Points:
- On June 12, Meta experienced widespread service outages affecting Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and related business services, with users reporting significant disruptions starting in the late morning.
- Meta's VP of Communications, Andy Stone, acknowledged the outages on X and confirmed that engineers were actively working to resolve the issues.
- By early afternoon, most disruptions had been resolved according to Meta's status page, though the WhatsApp Business Platform continued to experience high disruptions for some time.
- As of 4:22 p.m. ET, Meta confirmed that all service disruptions had been fully restored and concluded.
- The cause of the outages remains unknown, and Meta has not provided an official explanation for the incident.