Facebook and Messenger Apps: Major Global Outage

Facebook Faces Major Global Outage Affecting Messenger and Main App

by Staff Writer 12-06-2026 | 7:38 PM

COLOMBO (News 1st) -

Facebook has suffered a major global outage, leaving users unable to access the platform and disrupting Facebook Messenger services as well.

Users across multiple regions reported being automatically logged out of their accounts and facing difficulties logging back in, with error messages stating that an “unexpected error occurred.”.

 

The main Facebook website also appeared to be affected, displaying a message saying, “something went wrong” and that the issue was being worked on.

 

While other Meta-owned platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, appeared to remain largely operational, some Instagram web services were also reported to have experienced issues.

Meta has yet to issue an official statement on the disruption.