Hundreds of thousands of users are reporting issues using Facebook and Instagram on Wednesday afternoon. Here's what we know so far.

Meta appears to be having a widespread outage across its social media and messaging apps, with Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads all experiencing problems loading. Instagram is showing error messages on the web,

If you're getting an error when logging into or using Meta's apps, you're not alone, as thousands of users have reported service outages in the US.

Meta apps and services like Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Messenger are down as part of an apparent outage. Staff at Engadget and users across X and Bluesky have reported issues loading Meta’s websites and logging in.

Meta's status and outages page for its business products reported that, as of just before 2 p.m. EST, there were "major disruptions" affecting Facebook Ads Manager, Messaging Ads, the Messenger API for Instagram,

Meta has experienced a major global outage with thousands of users reporting Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp issues. "We're aware that a technical issue is impacting some users' ability to access our apps.

Outages began rising rapidly around 12:30 p.m., with more than 100,000 Facebook users and tens of thousands of Instagram users reporting problems by around 1:10 p.m.