A Meta outage hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. Here’s what we know so far

By Toby Murray, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne

A major outage is affecting users of popular social media and messaging services including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp around the globe. All these platforms are run by the social media giant Meta.

As news of the outage spread, we learned that it affected almost all of Meta’s products, including Messenger and Threads, as well as Meta’s business products, such as Facebook Ads Manager and the Messenger API for Instagram.

Most services are beginning to come back online. But what went wrong, and what can we learn from this massive outage?

The scope of the outage

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