{"id":10435,"date":"2026-06-12T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:49:00","slug":"digital-blackout-at-meta-thousands-of-users-unable-to-access-facebook-and-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10435","title":{"rendered":"Digital blackout at Meta \u2013 Thousands of users unable to access Facebook and Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Widespread reports of technical issues<\/b> on <b>Facebook, Instagram and Messenger<\/b> worldwide, <b>with thousands of users<\/b> experiencing <b>connection and access<\/b> issues.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of <b>users in various countries are experiencing serious disruptions to Meta\u2019s core services<\/b>, as Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger <b>are experiencing widespread access and operational issues<\/b>. Reports mention account logouts <b>on Social Media<\/b>, an inability <b>to refresh<\/b> content <b>, and loading issues with core features such as Stories and Messages<\/b>, with the <b>platform <\/b><b>monitoring service DownDetector recording a sharp increase in complaints within minutes of the incident beginning<\/b>. The issue appears to<b> be global in nature<\/b>, affecting users in Greece as well, while <b>so far there has been no official detailed statement regarding the causes of the outage<\/b> or the estimated time <b>for restoring normal operation<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Users have been experiencing <b>issues in recent hours on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger<\/b>, as Meta\u2019s apps<b>have been \u201ccrashing\u201d<\/b>in recent hours.<\/p>\n<h3>Connection issues <\/h3>\n<p>At this time, many users are seeing a message on their screens indicating a connection issue on their pages, while some report being frequently logged out of their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, those who manage to log into their accounts report that they are also experiencing issues with Stories.<\/p>\n<p>According to DownDetector, it has received hundreds of reports of issues with these three specific Meta apps from many countries, including Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widespread reports of technical issues on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger worldwide, with thousands of users experiencing problems &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}