Parent company Meta blames 'technical issue' for widespread problems with services.
Meta says it has resolved a "technical issue" which caused Facebook, Messenger and Instagram to go down.People trying to log onto the websites and apps were finding error messages and were unable to refresh their feeds as normal.
Meta also apologised to those who had been affected, saying it resolved the problem as quickly as it could.Meta's platforms are some of the most popular in the world. Facebook has three billion active monthly users, while Instagram is expected to hit 1.4 billion worldwide later this year. Threads, its rival to Twitter, that was launched in 2023, also reported outages. WhatsApp - which Meta also owns - was unaffected.
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