The outage began around 10 a.m. ET, according to crowdsourced data collected by Downdetector—with hundreds of thousands of users reporting issues with Facebook and tens of thousands with Instagram.

In 2021, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down for hours, an outage the company said was a result of faulty changes on routers that coordinate network traffic between its data centers.

An outage affecting Facebook and Instagram affected thousands of users on Tuesday but was resolved within a couple hours. As of 10:26 a.m. ET Tuesday, outage-tracking website Downdetector reported ...

but were monitoring the outages experienced by Meta platforms including Facebook and Instagram. "We are aware of the incident and at this time we are not aware of any specific election nexus or ...

Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are down for users in the US, with Instagram most affected. Downdetector shows over 10,000 reports, and 67% of users face issues with the Instagram app.

Several Meta properties including Facebook are reportedly down for users within the last few minutes. Downdetector shows a spike of more than 10,000 reports and climbing for Facebook, Instagram ...