Daily Mail UK – Science
Nearly all of Facebook owner Meta‘s full suite of social media sites and apps experienced reports of outages today, with New York and Los Angeles Instagram users among the hardest hit.
According to DownDetector, a website which monitors such outages, reports of problems with the platform first began to surface at about 18:30 GMT (14:30 ET).
Services across Meta appeared to be restored as of 20:00 GMT (17:00 ET) Friday.
All told, tens of thousands of outage reports came in from users across the continental United States.