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Facebook, Instagram hit with widespread outages
Facebook, Instagram and other Meta-owned social media platforms are being affected by widespread outages on Tuesday morning.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the problems in a post on X, writing, “We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.”
Messenger and Threads users also reported outages.
Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
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META | META PLATFORMS INC. | 498.19 | -4.11 | -0.82% |
Outage monitoring site DownDetector showed the spike in outage reports for Meta services began around 10:00 a.m. ET, with Facebook and Messenger users mostly reporting login problems.
The majority of reports from Instagram and Threads users flagged that the apps were failing to load.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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