Facebook and Instagram suffer global outage
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- Facebook and Instagram experienced a worldwide outage on Friday, June 12, affecting users across Singapore, Philippines, India, Australia, Canada, and the United States.
- Downdetector reported a spike in Singapore at around 9 p.m., indicating a surge in user reports of the outage.
- Facebook Messenger and the main Facebook app and website displayed an error message stating “something went wrong” and that the platform was “working on it”.
- StatusGator confirmed that users in the Philippines, India, Australia, Canada, and the United States also reported issues with Meta’s applications.
- Meta’s platforms have a history of intermittent disruptions, including a major multi‑hour outage in March 2026 that impacted users in several countries and a separate global disruption earlier that month.
- Meta has not issued a detailed explanation for the Friday outage.
Why it matters: The outage deprives millions of users of social connectivity and hampers businesses that rely on Meta’s platforms for communication and marketing, while underscoring Meta’s recurring reliability issues and its reluctance to provide transparent explanations. The disruption spanned Singapore, the Philippines, India, Australia, Canada, and the United States, showing the global scale of the impact.
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