Facebook, Instagram Suffer International Outages as 23,000 U.S. Facebook Users Report Problems
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Updated · CNN · Jul 19
Facebook, Instagram Suffer International Outages as 23,000 U.S. Facebook Users Report Problems
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Jul 19
Summary
More than 23,000 Facebook users and at least 18,000 Instagram users in the U.S. reported access problems between 3:44 a.m. and 5:02 a.m. ET Sunday, with reports then dropping sharply.
NetBlocks said the disruption was international and not tied to any country-level internet outage, indicating a platform-side problem rather than a regional connectivity failure.
Affected Facebook users saw a message saying their account was "currently unavailable due to a site issue" and were told to try logging in again in a few minutes.
WhatsApp, also owned by Meta, appeared unaffected during the incident, while Meta had not commented at the time of the report.