(NEXSTAR) – Facebook and Instagram users were locked ... Nexstar reached out to Meta for comment on cause of Tuesday’s outage, but hadn’t heard back. This story will be updated as we learn ...

For others, Instagram was working but not Facebook, and so on. Facebook did not say what might have caused the outage, which began around 11:40 a.m. ET and was still not fixed more than six hours ...

An outage affecting Facebook and Instagram affected thousands ... A little after noon ET, Stone wrote that "a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services.