Facebook, Instagram Not Working: Is Facebook Down?

UPDATE: As of 11:23 a.m. on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, Facebook and Instagram apps, logins, and websites appear to be restored. The number of outages have dropped from over 500,000 to just under 200,000.

Original Story:

Facebook and Instagram went down around 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, for over a half-million users, with 79% of users complaining that they are unable to log in to Facebook, according to downdetector.com.

The most intense Facebook outages appear to be on the western coast of the United States, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, according to a Facebook outage map by downdetector.com.