Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit by a major Meta outage

The Next Webby Alina Maria StanJune 12, 2026tech

Meta had a bad Friday morning. A major Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger for users around the world, starting shortly before 10am ET. By midday it was recovering, unevenly, region by region. The trouble appeared to begin on WhatsApp, then spread. Facebook users were abruptly logged out, met with a “Query […] This story continues at The Next Web

This article was published on The Next Web (thenextweb.com). Read the full article on the original source:

Read full article on The Next Web

#Apps #Social Media #Social for Business #Meta

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit by a major Meta outage

More from The Next Web

80 Texas residents are suing SpaceX, saying rocket launches are literally destroying their homes

India’s Avataar AI launches a video model that costs $0.005 per second, 27x cheaper than rivals

Five cloud security mistakes that start at the architecture level

China opens its first photonic computing lab as it bets on light to outrun US chip curbs

SpaceX rented Colossus 1 to Anthropic because it couldn’t make the data centre work for Grok

London Tech Week 2026: the AI billions, the US build-out, and a royal first

Spotify is adding editor-hosted videos to New Music Friday so you can meet the people behind the playlist

Firefox’s AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.