Meta outage disrupts social media globally

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Meta outage disrupts social media globally

A major IT outage at

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has affected services on its three core platforms,

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and Threads, for millions of users on an apparently global basis.

Reports of outages made through the popular

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service peaked at 15:35 GMT (10:35 EST) on Tuesday 5 March, with over half a million complaints made in regard to

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. The true number of individuals impacted will almost certainly be an order of magnitude higher.

Andy Stone, communications director at Meta,

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, the platform formerly known as

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, Stone said: “Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologise for any inconvenience.”

X’s owner, erratic tech billionaire Elon Musk,

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, saying: “If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.”

Meanwhile, Meta’s users – who also took to X to voice their frustration – reported being unable to load apps, send and receive messages, or refresh feeds. A number also found they had been automatically logged out of their accounts.

At the time of writing,

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appears to have returned to normal functionality, while

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and Threads continue to experience intermittent issues.

The outage has also

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products, including Ads Manager,

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and

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Shops, Meta Business Suite, and Meta Admin Centre, as well as elements of its developer platform, including

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Login, Graph API, WhatsApp Business API – which ******** down – and Marketing API.

While its occurrence on

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– the day on which Americans in 15 states select their preferred candidates for this year’s presidential election – will draw speculation of a cyber dimension, the cause of the outage is unknown.

Cisco-operated network visibility specialist

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said that Meta’s backend servers

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, with network paths clear and servers responsive, however, as users attempting to login were receiving error messages, it was possible that one of Meta’s backend services, potentially authentication, had experienced a glitch.

Neither was the outage

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, according to London-based internet and digital rights specialist

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