The Daily Populous Saturday June 13rd, 2026 night edition
Authored by the-independent.com and submitted by dmtjiminarnnotatrdr

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Facebook has gone down in what appears to be a huge outage.

The problems took down Facebook Messenger as well as the main app and website. Other Meta services such as Instagram and WhatsApp appeared to stay largely online, despite using shared systems behind the scenes, though some products such as Instagram’s website also suffered from issues.

:: Follow all the latest updates on the outage in our live blog here.

Users were automatically logged out and found themselves unable to log back in. Instead, they were shown an error message indicating that “an unexpected error occurred”.

The main Facebook website also showed a similar error. Visitors were told that “something went wrong” and that the company is “working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can”.

Meta does not operate an official status page for its consumer products. It does have one for its business tools, but at the time of publication it did not appear to have been updated to reflect the outage.

Downdetector, a major tracking website that collects information on outages, appeared to have broken around the same time as the Facebook outage, though it was not clear whether it was connected. Before it went offline, it showed a huge outage starting around 6.45am local pacific time, or 2.45pm in the UK, and problems right across the world with all of Facebook’s products.

Ohuigin on June 12nd, 2026 at 14:20 UTC »

Behold. A glimpse into the before times.

asherdante on June 12nd, 2026 at 14:20 UTC »

So many people checking, it also took down DownDetector!

SaintsandCigarettes on June 12nd, 2026 at 14:20 UTC »

Maybe an angel visited Zuck last night and convinced him to shut the entire platform down.