Facebook and Instagram Hit by Major Outage Affecting Thousands in the US

Facebook and Instagram experienced widespread outages affecting thousands of users across the United States. Downdetector.com recorded over 17,000 reports of issues with Facebook by 9:11 PM ET. Instagram also faced disruptions, with more than 5,000 outage reports logged on the same platform. The simultaneous outages on both Meta-owned platforms pointed to a significant service disruption affecting a large number of American users.