KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- If you had trouble accessing Facebook or Instagram on Wednesday afternoon -- it wasn't just you.

Several of Meta's social media platforms experienced issues globally on Wednesday afternoon, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. People who tried to access the websites around 1 p.m. EST were greeted with a "something went wrong" message.

Downdetector reported a spike in reported outages on all of Meta's websites around the same time.

Dozens of people on Reddit's r/Instagram subreddit reported similar problems with Instagram, saying they were unable to load anything on the website. People on the r/Facebook subreddit said they were logged out around 1 p.m. and couldn't log back in.

People on WhatsApp, a popular global messaging service run by Meta, said they were unable to send messages around 1 p.m. People in other countries reported similar issues.

Meta did not say as of 1:30 p.m. what's causing the issue or when the platforms are expected to come back up.