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A technical issue caused widespread login issues for a few hours across Meta\u2019s Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger platforms on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Andy Stone, Meta\u2019s head of communications,\u00a0acknowledged the issues<\/a>\u00a0on X, formerly known as Twitter, and said the company \u201cresolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Users reported being locked out of their Facebook accounts and feeds on the platform as well as Threads and Instagram were not refreshing. WhatsApp, which is also owned by Meta, appeared unaffected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A senior official with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told reporters Tuesday that the agency was \u201cnot aware of any specific election nexus nor any specific malicious cyber activity nexus to the outage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outage comes just ahead of Thursday\u2019s deadline for Big Tech companies to comply with the European Union\u2019s new Digital Markets Act. To comply, Meta is making changes, like allowing users to separate their Facebook and Instagram accounts so personal information can\u2019t be combined to target them with online ads. It\u2019s not clear whether the outage is connected to any preparations Meta might be carrying out for the DMA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down for hours, an outage the company said was a result of faulty changes on routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers. The next year, WhatsApp had another brief outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A technical issue caused widespread login issues for a few hours across Meta\u2019s Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger platforms on Tuesday. Andy Stone, Meta\u2019s head of communications,\u00a0acknowledged the issues\u00a0on X,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[1322,7729,7730],"class_list":["post-42598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-messenger-and-threads-logins-restored-after-widespread-outage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42600,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42598\/revisions\/42600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}