- Instagram and Facebook experienced a major outage, preventing users from accessing features as expected.
- On Instagram, new pictures failed to load and profiles were not displaying correctly.
- The issues were not universal across the apps, with some sections loading before displaying error messages.
- The problems began around 5pm Eastern Time, which is 10pm in the UK.
- Tracking website Down Detector reported a sudden increase in error reports from users worldwide.
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