Facebook, Instagram and Threads were down for many users Tuesday morning.
The social media sites are owned by Meta.
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The website Down Detector shows that hundreds of thousands of people reported issues with the social media sites shortly after 9 a.m.
Meta’s reporting site showed “major disruptions” for the Meta Admin Center as well as WhatsApp, another app owned by the company.
Many users are reported that they were unable to log in.
Andy Stone, Meta’s head communications, acknowledged the issues on X, formerly known as Twitter, and said the company “resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
A senior official with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told reporters Tuesday that the agency was “not aware of any specific election nexus nor any specific malicious cyberactivity nexus to the outage.”
The outage comes just ahead of Thursday’s deadline for Big Tech companies to comply with the European Union’s new Digital Markets Act. To comply, Meta is making changes, like allowing users to separate their Facebook and Instagram accounts so personal information can’t be combined to target them with online ads. It’s not clear whether the outage is connected to any preparations Meta might be carrying out for the DMA.
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.
*Editors Note: The Associated Press contributed to this report