Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down in major Meta outage

Core Points - Meta's applications, including WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, are experiencing significant service outages, affecting over 150,000 users as reported by DownDetector.com [2][3] - The peak of the outage reports occurred just before 1 p.m., with more than 96,000 users reporting issues with Facebook [2] - Instagram also faced issues, with over 69,000 users reporting access problems, while WhatsApp had more than 12,000 outage reports [3] User Impact - The outage reports are widespread across the country, with a notable concentration in major cities such as New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco [5]