Facebook was down for hours, leaving thousands of users locked out

Facebook experienced a widespread outage Tuesday afternoon, leaving users globally unable to access their feeds and causing significant disruption to advertisers. Reports flooded in from multiple countries, with many seeing account unavailability messages. While Messenger remained largely unaffected, the incident echoes a similar global shutdown two years prior, with Meta offering no specific explanation for the latest technical issues.

Facebook was down for hours, leaving thousands of users locked out
Facebook experienced a widespread outage Tuesday afternoon, leaving users globally unable to access their feeds and causing significant disruption to advertisers. Reports flooded in from multiple countries, with many seeing account unavailability messages. While Messenger remained largely unaffected, the incident echoes a similar global shutdown two years prior, with Meta offering no specific explanation for the latest technical issues.