Facebook and Instagram are both experiencing a spike in the number of users reporting outages, according to DownDetector.
The Post has sought comment from Meta, the parent company that owns both social media sites.
This is the second time in the last two weeks that two of the world’s most widely used social media platforms have experienced reported glitches.
A technical issue caused widespread login issues for a few hours across Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger platforms on March 5.
Andy Stone, Meta’s head of communications, acknowledged the issues on X, formerly known as Twitter, and said the company “resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
Users reported being locked out of their Facebook accounts and feeds on the platform as well as Threads and Instagram were not refreshing.
A senior official with the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told reporters that the agency was “not aware of any specific election nexus nor any specific malicious cyber activity nexus to the outage.”
This is a developing story.
