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Facebook, Instagram and Messenger were down Wednesday, with nearly two thousand
users worldwide reporting that they couldn’t log in to the popular social media
platforms, according to DownDetector.

Reports that the Meta-owned sites began to spike around 10 am ET and quickly
snowballed, DownDetector reported.

The tracking site showed that 70% of the roughly 1,700 who reported an outage
couldn’t log in to the apps, while 22% had trouble accessing the websites.
Another 8% were having log-in issues.

The Post has sought comment from Meta.

Meta users also took to rival platform X to report the outages and ask if others
were experiencing the same issues.



This is the second time in just over two weeks that Meta’s widely used social
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