A major outage hit Meta's platforms — Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger — starting around 10am ET on a Friday. Down Detector recorded over 130,000 reports for Facebook alone, with users worldwide experiencing login failures, feed errors, and inability to post or interact. Meta's business products including Ads Manager and the WhatsApp Business Platform were also disrupted. Meta acknowledged the issue and said engineering teams were working to resolve it, but did not disclose the cause. Recovery was underway by midday, with services restoring region by region.
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