There were about 4,000 reports of outages on Downdetector for Facebook as of 4:20 p.m. Eastern. WhatsApp users also reported ...

Most of us take it for granted that commonly-used services like Facebook will always be there. The fact is that they're susceptible to the same sort of problems that bring down smaller websites.

Facebook is reportedly down for many users globally. There has been a huge spike in outage reports in New Zealand since about 2.30pm on Thursday, but it appears to have extended worldwide.

Update: After an hour of this outage, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are working again. Users seem to be experiencing an outage with Meta products. At this moment, Facebook, Instagram ...

There was no evidence as of Monday afternoon ... posting “hello literally everyone” as jokes and memes about the Facebook outage flooded the platform. Later, as an unverified screenshot ...

Facebook's occasional outages are a headache for its billions of users, but there's an unexpected upside for the media industry: When the social network crashes, traffic to news sites spikes.

Facebook experienced a major outage on the morning of February 27, leaving users unable to access feeds, send messages, or log in. The issue, which affected the website more than the app ...

An outage affecting Facebook and Instagram affected thousands of users on Tuesday but was resolved within a couple hours. As of 10:26 a.m. ET Tuesday, outage-tracking website Downdetector reported ...