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15:36 Jun 12, 2026
Facebook-parent Meta said on Friday that users were having trouble accessing the social media company’s services. “We’re aware people are currently having trouble accessing our services. We’re working on it,” the company’s spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X. There were more than 62,000 reports of issues with Facebook and more than 8,000 reports of issues with Instagram as of 7:11 pm, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources. Since the numbers on Downdetector are based on user-submitted reports, the actual number of affected users may vary. Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the cause of the outage. Meta has about 3.19 billion daily active users across its family of apps, which also includes WhatsApp and Threads. Last December, the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) announced that Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and other Meta services would experience slow performance for 36 hours. The inform...