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Meta's Facebook and Instagram experience widespread outages in US

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Meta's Facebook and Instagram experience widespread outages in US

Instagram and Facebook suffered widespread outages on Sunday, with thousands of US users reporting access failures across app and website per Downdetector. For consumer platforms with 2B+ users, any downtime is a trust erosion event—builders in consumer social should invest in chaos engineering and graceful degradation before hypergrowth.

Source: ET Tech ↗

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