Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit by a major Meta outage

The Next Web
By Alina Maria StanJun 12, 2026, 11:03 am85 ptsTrending
Meta had a bad Friday morning. A major Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger for users around the world, starting shortly before 10am ET. By midday it was recovering, unevenly, region by region. The trouble appeared to begin on WhatsApp, then spread. Facebook users were abruptly…

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