Thousands of users appeared to be affected by a widespread outage impacting Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and Messenger on Friday, with reports flooding social media and outage-tracking site Downdetector.

Facebook is currently down for millions of users across the globe with Meta yet to issue a statement on the outage.

On June 12, Facebook users reported a widespread outage on the platform. The issues began appearing on various digital service monitoring websites

Why does the error happen? In short, it’s triggered by instances when Facebook fails to fetch data on Meta’s servers. That means it’s out of your control most ...