Updated
Updated · Hindustan Times · Jun 23
Facebook, Threads Hit by 20,000-User US Outage as Feeds and Messages Fail
Updated
Updated · Hindustan Times · Jun 23

Facebook, Threads Hit by 20,000-User US Outage as Feeds and Messages Fail

3 articles · Updated · Hindustan Times · Jun 23

Summary

  • More than 20,000 Facebook users reported problems by about 6:15 p.m. EDT after a US outage began surfacing around 5:45 p.m., with Threads also affected.
  • Feeds, posts, images and comments would not load for many users, while others said Messenger would not send or receive messages and logins or refreshes were failing.
  • Meta had not acknowledged the disruption in the report, and at least one user said Facebook’s service-status page still showed everything as working normally.
  • The outage followed earlier reports the same day of disruptions hitting Instagram and Facebook globally, suggesting broader instability across Meta’s platforms.

Insights

When giants like Meta, X, and Zoom all fall at once, who really holds the master switch to the internet?
What is the true cost to the global economy when the world's digital town squares suddenly go silent?