Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger have gone down in what appears to be a huge outage at parent company Meta.
Facebook users found they had been logged out and were unable to get on, while Instagram refused to work at all. The warnings about being logged out led to widespread concern among users that their accounts had been hacked, and a variety of concerned phrases trended on X, formerly known as Twitter.
But the error messages appear to be the result of problems with Facebook’s login system, not a hack or cyber-attack. Spokesperson Andy Stone posted on X to make clear that Meta was aware of the problems.
“We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services,” he wrote, “We are working on this now.”
