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Meta's Facebook, Instagram recover after brief outage in US
reuters.com • • business
Key Points:
- Facebook and Instagram experienced significant outages starting around 8:55 p.m. ET, with over 17,000 reports for Facebook and more than 5,000 for Instagram, according to Downdetector.
- The number of outage reports sharply declined by about 10 p.m. ET, suggesting that the services had largely recovered.
- Meta did not provide an immediate comment regarding the cause or details of the outage.
- Downdetector’s outage numbers are based on user reports, so the actual number of affected users may differ.
- A similar outage occurred in July, with fewer reported issues on both Facebook and Instagram compared to this incident.
