YouTube suffers a massive global outage, with over 280,00 users logging complaints on DownDetector.

YouTube experienced a major global outage on February 17–18, 2026, leaving millions of users unable to access the platform and triggering widespread ‘Something Went Wrong’ errors.

According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, reports of issues began around 8 p.m. EDT on Tuesday.

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As of Tuesday evening, there had been over a quarter of a million reports of YouTube issues, according to the crowd-sourced site Downdetector ...

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