Users of Meta products like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp reported over 190,000 outages starting at 12:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday. As per the website Downdetector, as of 1 p.m., 100,000 Facebook users were reporting issues, mostly with the app. More than 70,000 users reported issues on Instagram. And for WhatsApp, more than 12,000 issues were reported. Some Facebook users are seeing a query error when trying to access the social media platform. This error is known to happen when Facebook fails to fetch data from Meta's server. It can also be triggered by app or browser glitches and is usually out of the user's control.

Instagram's official account on X posted a message saying that they are aware of the issue and are working on a fix. However, it was not till around an hour later that the reports on the outages started reducing. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page