Meta appears to be having a widespread outage across its social media and messaging apps, with Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads all experiencing problems loading.Instagram is showing error messages on the web, and the mobile app has a spinning wheel when you try to refresh your feed. Though Stories appear to be working on Instagram, the "following" tab is also showing a "couldn't load activity" message.Instagram outage reports began spiking at around 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, accord ...

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024.Meta's family of apps including Facebook and Instagram were down on Wednesday, resulting in users being unable to access the services.The widespread outages began around 9:57 a.m. PST and affected the social media company's core apps as well as Threads, WhatsApp and Messenger, according to user-submitted reports gathered by the internet-monitoring site Do ...

A "technical issue" is impacting users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, Meta has said.In a statement on the X social media platform, the tech firm wrote: "We're aware that a technical issue is impacting some users' ability to access our apps. "We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologise for any inconvenience."According to Downdetector, which allows people to report problems with popular apps and websites, shows a big spike in reports of issues with Meta services shor ...

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads on Wednesday were all experiencing issues to varying degrees as a result of a global outage affecting Meta’s apps. The cause of the outage is not yet known, but Meta has acknowledged a “technical issue” in a post on X.The company at 1:48 p.m. ET wrote, “We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.” According ...

More than 150,000 users have reported outages across Meta’s WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram apps as of Wednesday afternoon, according to DownDetector.com.More than 96,000 Facebook users reported issues accessing the app, with reports spiking just before 1 p.m., according to the website, which tracks service outages.Meta applications are currently down. REUTERSA screenshot showing Instagram down. instagram.comMore than 69,000 Instagram users reported similar issues accessing the photo app, and more than 12, ...

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As Meta faces off with antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe, a £2.1 billion+ Facebook U.K. class action-style competition lawsuit, which takes Meta’s market dominance as a given, is moving ahead after the social media giant lost a bid to have the litigation thrown out. The suit is seeking damages worth a minimum of some $2.7B at current exchange rates.Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, a competition law expert, is suing the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp over claims that it exploited U.K. u ...

Total procured clean energy between the two companies now exceeds 1 gigawatt New agreement contracted through four Invenergy-developed solar facilitiesMENLO PARK, Calif. and CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Meta Platforms, Inc (Nasdaq: META) announced it has signed four contracts with Chicago-based energy owner, operator and developer, Invenergy, for 760 MW of clean energy. These new Environmental Attribute Purchase agreements (EAPAs) bring Meta's total clean energy procurement from Invenergy to over  ...

About this content About Oliver Haill Oliver has been writing about companies and markets since the early 2000s, cutting his teeth as a financial journalist at Growth Company Investor with a focusing on AIM companies and small caps, before a few years later becoming a section editor and then head of research. He joined Proactive after a couple of years freelancing, where he worked for the Financial Times Group, ITV, Press Association, Reuters sports desk, the London Olympic News Service, Rugby World Cup ...