Meta's social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, experienced significant outages on Wednesday night, affecting thousands of users globally. According to Downdetector.com, an outage tracking service, over 102,000 users reported issues with Facebook, while Instagram saw more than 60,000 complaints.

The disruptions began on December 11 around 11:45 p.m. (GMT+6) Bangladesh time and reports about the incident have been growing on Downdetector.com. Meta's messaging service, WhatsApp was also disrupted with over 4,800 users reporting problems. Many users encountered error messages stating "something went wrong".

Meta did not release any official statement regarding the issue.

Earlier this year, a technical issue caused outages for hundreds of thousands of users across Facebook and Instagram. In October, the platforms faced another brief outage, with services restored within an hour.