The problems started at 9.30 am. This led to a very high peak of messages: Instagram – and therefore everything related to Meta – “doesn’t work”, it already exists. It doesn’t work. Facebook too. There are those who report that WhatsApp is also not working. If you try to log into your Facebook page, a message will appear: “Account is currently unavailable. Your account is currently unavailable due to a problem with the website. We hope to resolve this issue soon. Please try again in a few minutes.” Mobile apps cannot load feeds, send or receive messages correctly, or post new stories or content. This is not the case for everyone and not everywhere. There are those who have not encountered any problems. Those who panicked instead, such as the American user, because “it was affecting my work.”
Also on the afternoon of June 12, 2026, Meta social media experienced a technical issue that prevented users from uploading stories, updating channels, and accessing platforms. Meta did not provide detailed public explanations of the specific reasons, limiting itself to eliminating the technical glitch as quickly as possible.
Instead, in 2024, a global outage simultaneously hit Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, with users abruptly logging out of their accounts and the platforms remaining unavailable for hours.
The longest and most severe decline in social media history occurred on October 4, 2021.. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp remained unavailable worldwide for about 10 hours. The blockage was caused by a configuration error on the main routers (i.e. Border Patrol or BGP), which coordinate traffic between metadata centers. Simply put, the platforms have “disappeared” from the Internet.
At the moment, Meta has not yet published official messages about the specific reasons for the failure, but technical specialists are already working to restore the servers. To monitor the situation in real time, you can check reporting spikes directly on Downdetector Italia to see if the problem is receding. Or you can search for them trending hashtags such as #FacebookDown or #InstagramDown on alternative platforms such as X (formerly Twitter).