Facebook and Instagram down: Meta apps and website not working, users complain
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Your support makes all the difference.Facebook and Instagram appear to have stopped working properly for at least some of their users.
People attempting to login to a variety of Meta services found they were unable to get online on Wednesday.
Some reported that they were able to get into their accounts but that a number of technical issues appeared when they did. Pictures may not show properly, or the search bar might not work, for instance.
But the outage seemed relatively minor: the number of reports of issues were low, and many found they were able to get online as usual.
Meta does not operate an official status page for its products, like many other platforms. It does offer a status page for its business products, which did not show any issues on Wednesday.
The problems came just a couple of weeks after a major outage that took most Meta products down for several hours.
Meta said then that the problems were caused by a “technical issue”.
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