Facebook, Instagram down for thousands of users, Downdetector shows

Meta’s Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users across the United States on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.There were more than 27,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and over 28,000 with Instagram, in an outage that started around 12:50 p.m. ET.WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging application, was also down for over 1,000 users, according to Downdetector.com.