Update: Facebook and Threads appear to have resumed normal operations following a brief outage on Tuesday evening that affected thousands of users. The cause of the disruption remains unclear, and Meta has not yet provided an explanation.
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Initial report: Facebook and Threads experienced a widespread outage across the United States on Tuesday evening, with thousands of users reporting issues accessing the apps and websites. Many users said that feeds, posts and other content were not loading.
Downdetector reports
According to Downdetector, reports of the outage began surfacing around 5:45 p.m. EDT and peaked at about 6:15 p.m., when more than 20,000 users had flagged issues with Facebook.
A large number of users said they were unable to send or receive messages on Messenger, while others reported difficulties logging in and refreshing content.
One user reported, "Interesting how FB is down in multiple locations but FB has not released any acknowledgement of it. Their service status says that everything is fine. But it clearly is not."
{{/usCountry}}One user reported, "Interesting how FB is down in multiple locations but FB has not released any acknowledgement of it. Their service status says that everything is fine. But it clearly is not."
{{/usCountry}}Another added, "Things are not loading, including images and comments. The site is only very minimally responsive."
A third person wrote, "I've tried two different devices and nothing on Facebook is loading or showing up. Is it down?"
Another commented, "Images are not loading correctly. I am seeing issues on other random sites too such as themoviedb."
Social media reports
Many also took to X (formerly Twitter) to report the outage.
One person wrote, "Wait... did everyone just get abruptly logged out of Facebook, Instagram and threads, or did I literally just get hacked? Tried lreloading pages and it’s giving me a blank white screen and a brutal "something went wrong " loop. Facebook down it seems."
Another added, "Facebook is down. Some stuff is loading up and some is not."