Hajra Naz
Currently, many users from Pakistan and other countries are having trouble accessing Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms, and many are also suffering unexpected account logouts.
As of right now, the glitch’s cause is still unknown.
According to Downdetector. more than 215,000 individuals have reported the outage. It appears to be that the outage started at roughly 3:00 PM GMT.
The graphs given by the real-time internet and social media outage and monitoring service showed a spike in reports of social site failures at approximately 8:16 p.m.
Facebook Messenger Graph
Instagram Outages Graph
Every time a user attempted to visit Instagram, the notice “Something went wrong” would appear, preventing them from viewing the information on the photo-sharing website.
Users discovered they were logged out of Facebook and Messenger, causing their login sessions to expire. When they tried to enter Facebook, a pop-up stating that “an unexpected error occurred” had displayed, and they were “unable to log in” again.
Owner of Twitter/X Elon Musk remarked on the outage, saying, “Assuming that you’re reading this post, this is on the grounds that our servers are working.”
Facebook has had outages previously, most outstandingly a seven-hour worldwide outage in 2021 that likewise impacted Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus.
The interruption was attributed by the business to maintenance operations that “globally disconnected Facebook data centers.”
NetBlocks, a cybersecurity and internet governance watchdog, has verified the social media ban.
