Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps go down due to 'technical issue'

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 ...