On June 17, 2023, Facebook and Instagram suffered a global outage that lasted for more than two hours. The outage prevented users from loading the platforms and sending or receiving messages on WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Instagram apologized for the inconvenience and assured users they were working on getting things back to normal. In addition, the Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp suffered a global outage earlier this month, preventing some users from using the platform on their mobile and desktop devices. Technical issues have plagued social media platforms in recent years, causing frustration for users.