02:06 PM EST, 12/11/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Thousands of users of Meta Platforms' ( META ) Facebook and Instagram across the US reported outages, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were over 105,000 instances of people reporting issues with Facebook and over 70,000 for Instagram in an outage that started around 12:50 pm ET, Reuters reported.

Meta did not immediately reply to a request for comment from MT Newswires.

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