

We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. While others poked fun at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg amid this latest outage.To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. One tweeted how everyone goes to Twitter make sure it is not just them whose Instagram is malfunctioning. Of course, social networkers had fun – well, as much fun as they can have when their favorite apps are down – Wednesday by migrating to Twitter and making #instagramdown a trending hashtag.

And fallout continues from the leaked documents provided by whistleblower Frances Haugen about harms caused by Facebook and Instagram and the company's failure to take action. The incident comes less than a week after CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed the parent company's name to Meta as a pivot toward the metaverse. ►Amazon drivers: More than 140,000 drivers to be repaid nearly $60 million in alleged withheld tips ►Stop bothering me, Facebook: Not ready to quit? Try these 3 tips to quiet it down It was just a month ago that the company had one of the longest outages in its history with Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp being down for about six hours. We know people and businesses depend on our services around the world and we’re sorry for any disruption this has caused.” We fixed the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted. ET, Meta sent a statement to USA TODAY: “Earlier today, some people may have experienced trouble accessing Workplace Chat, Instagram DMs and Messenger. Most users were unaffected by about 6 p.m. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.”īut the various platforms were back up and operating within a few hours. In a statement to USA TODAY, Meta, Facebook newly named parent company, addressed the situation: "We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Messenger, Workplace Chat and Instagram DMs. WhatsApp also began reporting problems about the same time, the site shows. Users on Facebook Messenger, along with Facebook and Instagram began reporting outages just after 2 p.m. Yes, Facebook, Instagram and Meta's other platforms had some issues Wednesday.
