Meta-owned social media platforms Facebook and Instagram have been reported as down by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide today (March 5). 

According to Downdetector.com, the outages appeared to start around 8 a.m. MST, over 400,000 people reported Facebook as not working. 

In a post on X made by Meta employee Andy Stone, it states, “We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.”

As of 9:30 a.m., the issue has started to slowly resolve, with few people being allowed access back into their accounts. 

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