Meta's Facebook, Instagram and Messenger suffer global outage

On June 12, 2026, Meta's social‑media services Facebook, Instagram and Messenger experienced a widespread outage. Users in the United States reported login failures, endless loading screens, and slow or missing content, with mobile apps showing error messages while desktop access was intermittently functional. Downdetector recorded more than 80,000 reports for Facebook and tens of thousands for the other platforms within an hour of the incident. Meta's status page listed “High disruptions” for Ads Manager, indicating that advertising delivery was also impacted, and the company confirmed that engineering teams were working to resolve the issue.

The outage affected both consumer usage and Meta’s ad‑delivery infrastructure, prompting real‑time updates from multiple tech outlets as the problem unfolded.