Meta’s Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps have suddenly stopped working for the third time in a month, leaving millions unable to access their accounts
The outage was first reported at around 10:45am ET, and has affected users in the UK, US, throughout Europe and large parts of Asia.
A report from DownDetector, which monitors online outages, suggests that nearly 60% of users have faced problems logging in to Facebook’s messenger app today. 26% also reported being unable to access the website.
Facebook users are encountering notifications claiming their accounts have been suspended or their sessions have expired, prompting them to log in again.
Certain users have reported the ability to send messages, but recipients are unable to respond.
Meanwhile, 66% of Instagram users say they have also been unable to access the app.
It comes just weeks after similar outages caused the apps to go down for millions twice in the space of a week.
The cause and length of the outage is still currently unknown.
