Thousands of users impacted by Facebook and Instagram outage

Growing concerns over service reliability and transparency.

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On Monday, Meta Platforms’ social media platforms Facebook and Instagram experienced a significant outage affecting thousands of users across the US. According to Downdetector, a website that tracks service interruptions, the outage peaked around 1:35 p.m. ET, with over 12,000 users reporting issues with Facebook and more than 5,000 for Instagram.

By 2:09 p.m. ET, the number of reported problems had decreased significantly to around 659 for Facebook and 450 for Instagram. Downdetector’s data is based on user-submitted reports, so the actual number of impacted users may differ.

Meta Platforms did not respond to requests for comment. Earlier this year, a similar issue disrupted services globally for more than two hours, affecting hundreds of thousands of users. That event saw 550,000 disruption reports for Facebook and around 92,000 for Instagram.