A number of people have flocked to social media, reporting issues with the platform

Updated 15:07 12 Jun 2026 GMT+1Published 14:44 12 Jun 2026 GMT+1
Facebook is currently down for millions of users

Rhiannon Ingle

Facebook is currently down for millions of users across the globe.

IsDown reported earlier this afternoon (12 June) that 'users are reporting an outage with Facebook'.

"IsDown is reporting that Facebook is having issues. IsDown last checked Facebook status on 12 June 2026 at 2:42 pm BST. We've received 4959 user reports in the past 24 hours," the site added.

Facebook is down for millions of users across the globe (NICOLAS TUCAT / Contributor / Getty Images)

The outage appears to have impacted Facebook Messenger as well as the main app and website.

Users were automatically logged out of their accounts and found themselves unable to log back in.

They were then shown an error message stating that 'an unexpected error occurred'.

Visitors on the main Facebook website were told that 'something went wrong' and that the company is 'working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can'.

People have since flocked to other social media channels to share their reactions to the reportage outage, with one X user writing: "I thought I was hacked."

"I thought I'd lost my page.. yes, there is def a problem with it," a second commented as a third chimed in: "Logged me right out lol."'

Can Rural Life Actually Save You In A Blackout?

Can Rural Life Actually Save You In A Blackout?

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Your WiFi router just had a nervous breakdown. Your smart TV is a brick. Your city friends are trapped in high-rise vertical coffins. The Blackout Apocalypse is here, and your fancy apps won't save you. But your boring life in the sticks? That romantic country dream you used to post about on Instagram? That might just be your biggest, dirtiest secret weapon.

Welcome to the new normal. In this chaotic episode of Fallout Raccoon, we ditch the grid and dive deep into the brutally honest science of post-blackout survival. We expose why relying on fragile modern technology is a fatal mistake and reveal the analog survival techniques that genuinely matter. We're talking real physics and chemistry—the 212∘ F boiling point, not your dead electric well pump. Learn the rural blackout survival tips that separate those who adapt from those who become fertilizer for someone else's victory garden.

Are you prepared for the Great Digital Death? We break down the stark, scientific difference between the urban scramble and the rural safety margin. Your grandpa’s knowledge is officially worth more than your college degree.

Discover: Why cities are now death traps and how to avoid the urban collapse.

Learn: Essential low-tech water purification methods that don’t require electricity.

Master: The forgotten fire science that keeps you warm without burning your furniture.

Decide: Is your rural lifestyle a true sanctuary, or just a picturesque place for you to starve?

Clock's ticking. Lights are already out. Adapt. Improvise. Survive. Your move, survivor. Make it count.

CIA Chief Spotted In Cuba As Specter Of Regime Change Looms Large

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John Loftus Editor at Large

May 15, 20269:23 AM ET


As the specter of the U.S.-led regime change grows, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released photos of agency chief John Ratcliffe meeting with Cuban officials in Havana on Thursday.

Ratcliffe and several U.S. officials—some of whose faces were blurred by the CIA in images posted to X—held talks Thursday with Cuba’s Interior Minister, the head of Cuban intelligence and Raúl Castro’s grandson, Raulito Rodríguez Castro. A CIA official told The Associated Press that the director was there “to personally deliver President Donald Trump’s message that the United States is prepared to seriously engage on economic and security issues, but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes.” 

The threat of regime change in Cuba has grown in recent weeks. President Donald Trump has repeatedly mused about taking over Cuba and suggested May 8 that a U.S. aircraft might leave the Iran War theater and position itself off the country’s coast. The administration has also intensified its economic war, blocking oil shipments since January. Amid energy blackouts, a collapsing economy and protests in the capital, Cuba’s oil and gas supplies have now run dry, according to Cuban Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy.

U.S. says Cuba is prohibited from taking Russian oil as two tankers head to island

Key Points

• The U.S. Treasury Department has made clear that Cuba is not allowed to take delivery of Russian crude.
• The warning comes at a time when two tankers carrying Russian oil and gas are thought to be on their way to Havana.
• The fuel-starved Caribbean island is facing its biggest test since the collapse of the Soviet Union under a U.S. oil blockade.

An old Soviet-era Lada car drives past a truck belonging to a private Cuban company (mipyme) parked in front of a gas station with an IsoTank of imported fuel in Havana on March 19, 2026.

Adalberto Roque | Afp | Getty Images

Published Fri, Mar 20 202

64:54 AM EDT

Sam Meredith@in/samuelmeredith@smeredith19WATCH LIVE

The U.S. Treasury Department has said Cuba won’t be allowed to take delivery of Russian crude, even as the fuel-starved island appears poised to receive two tankers carrying oil and gas.

In a general license published Thursday, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added Cuba to a list of countries that would be blocked from transactions involving the sale, delivery or offloading of crude or petroleum products that originate from Russia.

The U.S. had temporarily authorized the purchase of Russian oil stranded at sea last week, as part of an effort to stabilize energy markets during the U.S. and Israeli-led war on Iran. The short-term measure suspended sanctions that were first imposed on Moscow following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The update comes as maritime intelligence providers have been tracking two tankers carrying Russian oil and gas heading toward Cuba.

Beset by blackouts and a worsening economic crisis under a U.S. oil blockade, the communist-run Caribbean island is currently facing its biggest test since the collapse of the Soviet Union. U.S. President Donald Trump said earlier in the week that he thinks he’ll have the “honor” of taking Havana in some form.

Russia, which has been allied to Cuba for decades, has sharply criticized the Trump administration’s fuel blockade and pledged to provide the country with “necessary support, including financial aid.”

2 dead in Washington and Mississippi as severe weather slams large parts of the country

Widespread showers and thunderstorms will continue Wednesday, with more than 50 million under alerts from the Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic and as far south as the Gulf Coast.


March 12, 2026, 9:39 AM EDT / Updated March 12, 2026, 12:10 PM EDT

By Patrick Smith and Kathryn Prociv


Two people were killed in Washington and Mississippi, and hundreds of thousands are without power across the country as severe weather causes havoc across the nation.

Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue said that the person died in the city of Monroe, northeast of Seattle, when a tree fell on their vehicle. "Unfortunately, this incident turned out to be fatal for the only occupant in the vehicle," the fire service said on Facebook.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency reported one death and three injuries in Lawrence County, as well as storm damage to homes.

The severe West Coast weather comes as many parts of the country were hit by storms, including at least 27 tornadoes in the Midwest alone, in the last 48 hours. An elderly couple from Lake Village, Indiana, was killed Tuesday night, and multiple others were hospitalized as a result of tornadoes and a powerful long-track thunderstorm that lasted more than seven hours.

The Newton County Coroner's office confirmed that Edward L. Kozlowski, 89, and his wife, Arlene Kozlowski, 84, were killed when a tornado struck their home.

The National Weather Service office in Chicago preliminarily confirmed two tornadoes touched down in Illinois and Indiana on Tuesday, one of them rated EF-3 on the six-step Enhanced Fujita scale, meaning it had sustained wind speeds of 136 to 165 mph.

Hundreds of homes were damaged in Indiana, authorities said, with dozens completely destroyed. The NWS said that hail as large as 6 inches wide was found in Illinois.

A damaged vehicle lies upside down Wednesday in the aftermath of a powerful storm that ripped through the day before in Aroma Park, Ill.Nam Y. Huh / AP

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By Cat Zakrzewski and

Cristiano Lima


Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the committee chair, says the hearing will be on recess until 2:30 p.m., following a power outage that has interrupted an official feed of the hearing.

21 min ago

By Cristiano Lima

Tech newsletter reporter anchoring The Technology 202, focusing on politics and policy.


The lights have partially returned in the room, as power outages impacted a floor in the Rayburn House Office Building.


A committee aide told The Post that the power went down in a quadrant of the Rayburn House Office Building. Some of the computers and lights in the building went off, and the WiFi temporarily went down, the person said.

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FBI Investigates Attack On US Power Grid. Thousands Without Power After ...

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT FRIDAY’S MASSIVE EAST COAST INTERNET OUTAGE

AUTHOR: LILY HAY NEWMAN.LILY HAY NEWMAN SECURITY

DATE OF PUBLICATION: 10.21.16.10.21.16

TIME OF PUBLICATION: 1:04 PM.1:04 PM

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FRIDAY MORNING IS prime time for some casual news reading, tweeting, and general Internet browsing, but you may have had some trouble accessing your usual sites and services this morning and throughout the day, from Spotify and Reddit to the New York Times and even good ol’ WIRED.com. For that, you can thank a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) that took down a big chunk of the Internet for most of the Eastern seaboard.

This morning’s attack started around 7 am ET and was aimed at Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company headquartered in New Hampshire. That first bout was resolved after about two hours; a second attack began just before noon. Dyn reported a third wave of attacks a little after 4pm ET, and called the overall situation a “very sophisticated and complex attack” stemming from tens of millions of IP addresses. In all cases, traffic to Dyn’s Internet directory servers throughout the US—primarily on the East Coast but later on the opposite end of the country as well—was stopped by a flood of malicious requests disrupting the system. Still ongoing, the situation is a definite reminder of the fragility of the web, and the power of the forces that aim to disrupt it.