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Facebook and Instagram suffer outage affecting thousands of users
September 21, 2026 at 04:58 AM
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Outage tracker Down Detector reported that Facebook and Instagram went down for thousands of users in the United States on Sunday.
- Down Detector logged more than 17,000 outage reports on Facebook and over 5,000 on Instagram as of 01:11 GMT.
- Facebook users in several Egyptian governorates reported trouble accessing their accounts and browsing the platform.
- Meta has not responded to a Reuters request for comment on the outage.
- Down Detector said its figures stem from user-submitted reports and may differ from the actual number affected.