The cause of the Facebook and Instagram outage has been named

This was announced by Meta spokesman Andy Stone on social network X.

Earlier today, people had difficulty accessing some of our services due to a technical issue," he wrote.

Stone said the problem was resolved as quickly as possible for all affected users

We apologise for the inconvenience caused, - added the representative of Meta.

Recall, today users began to complain enmasse about failures in social networks Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Some did not update the Instagram feed and had problems logging into Facebook. At the moment, the social networks have resumed work.