Facebook And Instagram Hit With Worldwide Outage

Meta's Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are down worldwide, leaving hundreds of thousands of users unable to access the social media platforms.

The issues appeared around 10:20am ET and are impacting both social media sites' apps and website.

DownDetector, which monitors online outages, shows more than 200,000 Americas are having problems with Facebook, but over 30,000 reported the same with Instagram - Messenger has a little over 8,000.

This is a developing story... more updates to come.