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In some cases, anyone who opened the Instagram app in the late afternoon German time received the message: “Feed could not be loaded.”
So no posts were displayed.
There were also difficulties with Facebook: Users of online services from the Meta Group reported on other social media platforms that they had been logged out and were unable to log in again.
The AlleStörungen platform received several thousand complaints from users in Germany who reported problems with Instagram and Facebook.
Apparently there were widespread technical disruptions in several countries, not just in Germany.
The Internet traffic monitor Downdetector reports widespread outages on several meta platforms.
There are reports from all over the world that it is a global failure.
London-based internet monitoring company Netblocks also said on
However, the company, which advocates for Internet freedom, wrote that there was no evidence of "country-specific Internet interruptions or filtering," i.e. no evidence of government censorship or influence.
Andy Stone, Meta's head of communications, confirmed the problems at X and wrote: "We're working on it."
The number of fault reports also fell again in the early evening, reports AlleStörungen.
So the services are running again.
It's not the first time Meta has hiccups.
Three years ago, hundreds of millions of users were suddenly faced with an outage lasting several hours.
At that time, a misconfiguration in the Border Gateway Protocol was to blame.
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