FB, IG, Threads, and Messenger, owned by Facebook’s parent company Meta, malfunctioned without warning at about 11:20 pm on the 5th. All users’ accounts were logged out, and users could not log in even if they entered the correct password. Among them, FB returned to normal at around 0:20 a.m. on the 6th, and users could log in to post.
Meta spokesman Andy Stone posted on the X platform at 11:52 midnight on the 5th, Malaysian time, saying, “We know people are having difficulty logging in. We are working hard to resolve the issue now.”
In addition, Meta’s social software suffered a big crash, and its stock price fell 1.42% or $7.08 after opening to 491.11.