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UPDATE: Widespread Meta outage reported

By Natalia Vega
March 5, 2024 - 11:34am

Facebook and Instagram users were unable to scroll their feeds for over an hour on Tuesday.

Outages on Meta sites were reported just before 10:30 a.m.

According to an outage tracking website called Downdetector, over 126,000 users reported a Facebook outage and over 23,000 users reported issues with Instagram.

Issues were also reported for Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp but on a smaller scale.

Meta released a brief statement Tuesday afternoon apologizing for the inconvenience but did not explain what caused the disruption.

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