Facebook and Instagram experiencing outage

Social media sites Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger, owned by tech giant Meta, are experiencing an outage Tuesday.

Some users reported being automatically logged out from Facebook and two-factor authentication to log back in is also down.

On Instagram, news feeds are loading and refreshing, but comments and other interactions are unavailable.

Internet traffic observer Down Detector is reporting vast outages on the Meta platforms. The problems are being reported across the world, suggesting that the problem could be global.

London-based internet monitoring firm Netblocks said on X that four Meta platforms — Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads — were “currently experiencing outages related to login sessions in multiple countries.”

But the firm, which advocates for internet freedom, said there was no sign of “country-level internet disruptions or filtering,” which are typically imposed by governments.

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone took to X, formerly Twitter to say the company is aware of the problem.

Meanwhile, WhatsApp, which is also owned by Meta, did not appear to be experiencing problems.

Cybersecurity expert Matthew Green said the outage appears to go beyond Meta.

“There are a number of services having trouble with at least parts of their systems, particularly the ability to log into websites,” said Green, an associate professor of computer science and member of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute.

“This may indicate a common cause, like a failure at a major cloud services provider. At the moment nobody knows exactly what’s happening.”

X referenced the outage acknowledging possible increased traffic on the platform.

Elon Musk, CEO of X also addressed the outage.

With files from The Associated Press