Users worldwide, including those in Australia, are reporting difficulties accessing Meta’s platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads.
It appears all platforms had suffered an outage, with with users struggling to sign in.
Downdetector, a site that monitors online disruptions, has received more than 100,000 complaints regarding these platforms.
Meta has not issued a statement regarding the outage, but its “status and outages of Meta business products” page confirms issues with the platforms.
“We are currently experiencing major disruption impacting message delivery on Messenger Platform. This issue started at 9:58am PST (4am AEST). Our engineering teams are investigating the issue. We will provide another update within one hour or sooner if additional information is available.”
