Facebook largely back up after brief outage in the US, Downdetector shows

Meta Platforms' Facebook was largely ​back up after an outage that affected thousands of ‌users in the U.S. on Tuesday, according ⁠to Downdetector.com.

Meta Platforms' Facebook was largely ​back up after an outage that affected thousands of ‌users in the U.S. on Tuesday, according ⁠to Downdetector.com. (Dado Ruvic, Reuters)


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NEW YORK — Meta Platforms' Facebook was largely ​back up after an outage that affected thousands of ‌users in the U.S. on Tuesday, according ⁠to Downdetector.com.

At ​its peak, there ⁠were more than 11,000 reports ‌of issues ‌with the social media platform ⁠in the ⁠U.S., before coming down to about 1,200 as of 4:11 p.m. MT, according to Downdetector.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports ‌from a ​number of sources, including user-submitted reports, and the actual number of affected users may vary.

Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on ​what caused the outage.

Separately, ‌the company's ‌status ⁠page indicated high disruptions on Facebook Ads Manager, a tool for creating, managing and analyzing advertising ‌campaigns across Facebook, ​Instagram and ‌other platforms.

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