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Facebook, Instagram Down for Thousands
21 Sep
Summary
- Facebook and Instagram experienced outages on Sunday.
- Thousands of users in the U.S. reported issues.
- Downdetector recorded over 17,000 Facebook outages.
On Sunday, Meta's social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, experienced widespread outages affecting a large number of users in the United States. According to Downdetector.com, the disruptions began on Sunday evening, with the platform tracking thousands of user-submitted reports of issues.
As of 9:11 PM ET, Downdetector.com registered over 17,000 reports detailing problems with Facebook. Instagram also experienced a significant number of outages, with more than 5,000 reports logged on the same platform. Meta has not yet issued a statement or responded to requests for comment regarding the cause or duration of these service interruptions.
It is important to note that the figures reported by Downdetector are based on user-submitted status reports. Consequently, the actual number of affected users and the severity of the outages may vary from the reported statistics. The situation was ongoing as of Sunday evening.
