(12-11-24) Meta said Wednesday that it is close to resolving a technical issue that is causing a widespread outage of its apps, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Meta Newsroom informed their users on the competition’s X Wednesday afternoon –

“We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.”

WhatsApp and Instagram both confirmed outages via X, and many users are reporting they are unable to access Meta’s apps.

The outage lasted for more than three hours. By around 5:30 pm EST, Meta posted that it was “99% of the way there” to fully solving the issue.