On Wednesday, multiple prominent platforms owned by Meta — encompassing Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and WhatsApp — faced significant issues, with numerous users indicating that the applications had completely crashed.

As per user-contributed data on [Down Detector](https://downdetector.com/), a site that monitors outages (and is under the same parent company as Mashable), reports of complications started to rise around 1 p.m. EST. This surge reflected simultaneous failures across Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads.

Users took to social media to express their discontent and observations about the outages.

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Meta has yet to release an official comment concerning the disruptions. Nonetheless, by 1:41 p.m. EST, the situation seemed to be improving, as the count of outage reports on Down Detector began to fall. At that moment, I was able to open Meta’s key apps and websites successfully, implying that the issues might have been temporary.