Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps are down

Driving the news: Downdetector is showing sudden spikes for Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp with a lot of people affected by the outages.

• Users on X and Bluesky are posting that the apps are not loading for them.
• When trying to access Facebook, some users are met with an error message reading, "We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."

What they're saying: Meta said in a statement on X that they're "aware that a technical issue is impacting some users' ability to access our apps" and are "working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience."