Facebook, Instagram… several platforms of the Meta group affected by a global outage following a “technical problem”

Meta touché par un problème technique, désormais résolu. (illustration) MAXPPP – Andre M. Chang

This Tuesday, March 5, 2024, the Meta group encountered a “technical problem”, which caused a global outage on several of its platforms. At the end of the afternoon, the problem was resolved.

The social networks Facebook and Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms, were accessible again this Tuesday after experiencing a technical problem that made them out of service for more than two hours for hundreds of thousands of people. ;users around the world.

A problem solved, according to Meta

According to the website Downdetector.com, which lists such outages, the disruptions on the two social networks began around 3:00 p.m. GMT, then peaking with some 550,000 reports of a Facebook outage and around 92,000 for Instagram.

Via the social network difficulties for some in accessing several of our services. We fixed the issue". Andy Stone did not provide details on the incident. Meta, whose stock was down 1.2% in the afternoon on Wall Street, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.< /p>

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Some 3.19 billion people around the world use applications daily from the technology giant, which also owns WhatsApp messaging and the Threads social network. An interface used for the WhatsApp Business application also experienced operating issues, on a lesser scale.

Several Meta employees said on the anonymous messaging app Blind that they were unable to access the company's internal systems ;#39;s company, leaving them to fear they had been fired, according to messages seen by Reuters.