[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-meta-platforms-experience-outage-on-friday-morning":10},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":24,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":22,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},802,"meta-platforms-experience-outage-on-friday-morning","Meta platforms experience outage on Friday morning","Users reported being unable to reach Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp from around 10 AM ET.","An outage hit Meta’s consumer apps on Friday before 10 AM ET.\n\nReports surged that Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp were inaccessible. The problem appeared simultaneously across the services and persisted for several hours, prompting users to post about the issue on other networks. Meta has not yet released an official statement.\n\nThe incident matters because the four apps together serve billions of daily users and generate the bulk of Meta’s ad revenue. A single failure exposes how tightly the company’s business model relies on continuous uptime.\n\nOutages of this scale are rare for Meta, but they underscore the fragility of a platform that powers so much of online social life.","[\"meta\",\"outage\",\"social-media\"]","2026-06-12T14:17:54.000Z","2026-06-12T15:15:00.489Z","2026-06-12T15:15:06.717Z","published",null,[],"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.xyz.onl\u002Farticle-images\u002Fmeta-platforms-experience-outage-on-friday-morning.webp",[26,27,28],"meta","outage","social-media",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"TechRadar","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.techradar.com\u002Fnews\u002Flive\u002Ffacebook-meta-whatsapps-down-june-12-2026",0]