Users worldwide report that all three Meta-owned platforms — WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram — are inaccessible as of 17:01 Jerusalem time. The nature and cause of the outage are not yet known; Israeli users are among those affected. As The Zioneer reported at 17:00, Facebook and Instagram went down shortly before WhatsApp also stopped functioning.
The outage, first reported at approximately 17:00 Jerusalem time with Facebook and Instagram going dark, has now expanded to include WhatsApp — effectively taking down all three major Meta-owned platforms simultaneously. Israeli users on all three apps report inability to send or receive messages, load feeds, or access accounts. The cause remains unconfirmed, with no official statement from Meta as of 17:03. Speculation among some online sources — unverified — has pointed to a possible cyberattack, but the company has not commented. The incident follows a routine scheduled WhatsApp support cutoff for older devices reported on June 9, but is unrelated to that planned change.
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