Meta Platforms Experience Major Outages Across Services
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Meta's platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, experienced widespread outages on Wednesday afternoon, with thousands of users reporting issues on DownDetector. The outages began around 12:30 p.m. EST, peaking with over 100,000 reports for Facebook alone. By 2 p.m., the number of reports had decreased significantly. Meta acknowledged the technical issue and is working to resolve it. This follows a similar global outage in March and recent outages from other tech companies like Microsoft and Reddit.
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