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Social media giant Facebook is currently experiencing a massive worldwide outage | Bleepng Computer

According to DownDetector, the outage began around 4:15 PM ET and is impacting accounts worldwide. 
However, the Meta status page only claims there are "High Disruptions" to the Facebook ad manager, Instagram Boost, and the WhatsApp Business API.

Facebook accounts unavailable in worldwide outage

By Lawrence Abrams
March 3, 2026
05:38 PM

Social media giant Facebook is currently experiencing a massive worldwide outage, preventing users from accessing their accounts.

When visiting the site, users are greeted with a message stating there account is temporarily unavailable.

"Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes," reads the outage message   

 
Facebook outage message stating your account is unavailable
Source: BleepingComputer

BleepingComputer contacted Facebook with questions about the outage and will update the story if we hear back.

This is a developing story.

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    Social media giant Facebook is currently experiencing a massive worldwide outage | Bleepng Computer

    According to DownDetector , the outage began around 4:15 PM ET and is impacting accounts worldwide.  However, the Meta status page only cla...