Widespread service outage: Facebook and Instagram experience disruption for numerous users
According to Downdetector.com, on Friday, Facebook and Instagram, both owned by Meta Platforms, experienced a widespread outage that affected thousands of users.
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- Published Date: 10:51 | 16 June 2023
- Modified Date: 10:51 | 16 June 2023
Meta Platforms-owned Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.
More than 12,000 users reported having trouble accessing Facebook, while over 6,600 users were having trouble with Instagram.
Meta's messaging service, WhatsApp, also had over 1,300 outage reports on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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