Meta's Instagram Outage Affects Thousands in US

Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms, faced a significant outage affecting thousands of users across the United States on a Wednesday morning, as reported by Downdetector. Users reported being unable to load their feeds, post photos, send messages, and experiencing login issues. The outage also impacted other Meta services like Facebook and Threads, but Meta has not officially acknowledged the issue, with their status page claiming no issues. Downdetector recorded over 10,000 outage reports for Instagram, with similar disruptions reported for Facebook. This isn't the first time Meta platforms have faced such disruptions, with previous outages recorded last year. The cause of the outage remains unclear, and further updates from Meta are awaited.