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Meta operated apps are suffering outages this afternoon. Down Detector shows more than 150-thousand users have reported issues with Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.
Reports about the problems began to spike just before 1 p.m. Eastern. Users in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and New York have reported encountering issues.
In a statement, Meta said it was aware a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access their apps and are working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.
