Meta’s social networks down for thousands of users in US, Downdetector says

Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram experienced an outage in the United States on Sunday evening. Thousands of users reported problems accessing these social networks. According to the outage tracker Downdetector, there were more than 17,000 reports for Facebook and over 5,000 for Instagram by 9:11pm ET. These figures represent voluntary reports submitted by users rather than total user counts. The disruption affected a significant number of people across the country during the Sunday night period.