Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram experienced a Meta outage in the U.S. on Sunday, affecting thousands of users, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

As of 9:11 PM ET, Downdetector had received more than 17,000 reports of issues with Facebook. Instagram also recorded more than 5,000 outage reports.

Downdetector tracks service disruptions by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Therefore, the figures do not necessarily represent the total number of affected users.

The Meta outage affected both Facebook and Instagram, although the exact cause and duration of the disruption were not immediately provided in the information available.

Meanwhile, users may experience different levels of disruption depending on their location and the specific service features they use.

Since Downdetector figures are based on user-submitted reports, the actual number of users affected by the Meta outage may vary.

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