Overview
- Tens of thousands of users across multiple countries reported failures on June 23, with outage-tracker Downdetector showing rapid spikes in complaints about Instagram and Facebook.
- Users described posts, profiles and feeds failing to load on both mobile apps and web browsers and also reported issues across other Meta services such as WhatsApp, Threads and Messenger.
- The disruption was uneven, with some people able to access parts of the apps while others saw persistent errors and blank or partially loaded content.
- Meta’s public acknowledgment focused on an Ads Manager/ad-delivery issue and said engineering teams were working on it, but the company has not provided a technical root cause or an estimated time for full restoration.
- Businesses and advertisers faced possible ad-delivery interruptions and many users turned to Downdetector and alternative platforms such as X for real-time confirmation and updates, highlighting risks of centralized social networks and recurring outages this month.