A technical issue caused widespread login issues for a few hours across Meta's Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms Tuesday.
Andy Stone, Meta鈥檚 head communications, on X, formerly known as Twitter, and said the company 鈥渞esolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.鈥
Users reported being locked out of their Facebook accounts and feeds on the platform as well as Threads and Instagram were not refreshing. WhatsApp, which is also owned by Meta, appeared unaffected.
A senior official with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told reporters Tuesday that the agency was 鈥渘ot aware of any specific election nexus nor any specific malicious cyberactivity nexus to the outage.鈥
The outage comes just ahead of Thursday's deadline for Big Tech companies to comply with the European Union鈥檚 new Digital Markets Act. To comply, Meta is making changes, like allowing users to separate their Facebook and Instagram accounts so personal information can鈥檛 be combined to target them with online ads. It鈥檚 not clear whether the outage is connected to any preparations Meta might be carrying out for the DMA.
In 2021, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down for hours, an outage the company said was a result of faulty changes on routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers. The next year, WhatsApp had another brief outage.
