Facebook accounts unavailable in worldwide outage By Lawrence Abrams March 3, 2026 05:38 PM 0 Social media giant Facebook is currently experiencing a massive worldwide outage, preventing users from accessing their accounts. When visiting the site, users are greeted with a message stating there account is temporarily unavailable. "Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes," reads the outage message. Facebook outage message stating your account is unavailable Source: BleepingComputer According to DownDetector , the outage began around 4:15 PM ET and is impacting accounts worldwide. However, the Meta status page only claims there are "High Disruptions" to the Facebook ad manager, Instagram Boost, and the WhatsApp Business API. BleepingComputer contacted Facebook with questions about the outage and will update the story if we hear back. This is a developing story. Red Report 2026: Why Ransomware Encryption Dropped 38% Malware is getting smarter. The Red Report 2026 reveals how new threats use math to detect sandboxes and hide in plain sight. Download our analysis of 1.1 million malicious samples to uncover the top 10 techniques and see if your security stack is blinded. Download The Report Related Articles: Amazon: Drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in Middle East Anthropic confirms Claude is down in a worldwide outage Microsoft Teams outage affects users in United States, Europe Russia tries to block WhatsApp, Telegram in communication blockade Microsoft 365 outage takes down admin center in North America