India, June 12 -- Thousands of users have reported problems accessing Instagram and Facebook, as the Meta-owned social media platforms face a widespread outage impacting users across multiple regions.

Users have flagged a range of issues, including login failures, apps not loading properly, feeds refusing to refresh, and certain features becoming inaccessible. Complaints surged on outage-monitoring platform Downdetector around 7 pm IST, indicating that the disruption is affecting users beyond a single country or market, with reports emerging from several Indian cities.

Many users turned to X and other social platforms to verify that they were experiencing similar problems. While some reported blank or frozen feeds, others said Instagram...