According to USAToday.com, “Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage”:
Having trouble accessing Facebook or Instagram on Wednesday afternoon? You weren't alone.
The massively popular social network went down early afternoon Eastern time with issues popping up across Facebook proper, Facebook Messenger and Instagram around the world.
As with nearly every Facebook outage, users headed to Twitter with the hashtag #facebookdown quickly becoming the top trending topic in the United States.
This is real. I was trying to post something to Facebook for about 30 minutes when I decided to do a Google search on “facebook not working" and found out it was broken worldwide.