Instagram And Facebook Down

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  Facebook, Instagram Face Widespread Outage In US, Thousands Affected

  Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

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  Regret Not Speaking Out: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg On US Pressure To Censor Covid-19 Posts

  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes US government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain Covid-19 content in 2021 was "wrong", according to a letter submitted to a US congressional committee.

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  EU Presses Meta On Transparency Plans After Scraping Disinformation Tracker

  The EU on Friday formally requested that Meta detail steps it is taking on transparency after the Facebook and Instagram owner scrapped a widely-used tool for tracking disinformation online.

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  Meta Just Shut A Vital Online Tool. It's Bad News For Fight Against Misinformation

  For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online.

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  Meta Took Down Over 17 Million Objectionable Content In India In April

  Meta said that it took down over 11.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.4 million pieces of objectionable content across 12 policies for Instagram in India in April.

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  ''Our Servers Are Working'': Elon Musk's Jibe At Meta As Facebook And Instagram Crash

  Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, has recorded over 3,00,000 Facebook outages and over 47,000 outage reports for Instagram worldwide.

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  [Update] Instagram Down for Several Users Globally; Facebook Users Also Report Outage

  Several Instagram users are reporting an outage, and Downdetector, the website tracking real-time issues and outages, confirms it.

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  Facebook, Instagram Back After Hour-Long Outage In India, Other Countries

  Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger - platforms managed by Meta - were down for over an hour on Tuesday evening for thousands of users in India and several other countries.

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  Musk's X Slows Down Access To Top News Outlets, Social Media Rivals: Report

  Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, delayed access to links to content on the Reuters and New York Times websites as well as rivals like Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday.

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  Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp Reportedly Down for Thousands of Users During Global Outage

  Thousands of US users across Meta Platforms' social media offerings Instagram and Facebook, and WhatsApp reported outages on Monday, according to Downdetector.com. Around 13,000 users reported issues with accessing Instagram, while around 5,400 and 1,870 users faced outages on Facebook and WhatsApp, respectively.

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  Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp Down For Thousands Of Users: Report

  Thousands of U.S. users across Meta Platforms' social media offerings Instagram and Facebook, and messaging app WhatsApp reported outages on Monday, according to Downdetector.com.

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  Meta Restores Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp After Outage Reports From Several Users

  Meta Platforms said on Friday services on its social media apps Facebook and Instagram were restored, more than two hours after an outage that affected thousands of users. At one point, nearly 20,000 users in total said they were having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram and Meta's messaging service WhatsApp.

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  Facebook, Instagram Down For Thousands Of Users: Report

  -Meta Platforms on Friday said it was aware of issues with its Ads Manager, its advertising tool that lets brands buy and create Facebook ads.

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  Facebook, Instagram Begin Rolling Out Paid Verification Service in Australia, New Zealand

  Facebook and Instagram have begun a week-long rollout of their first paid verification service on Friday, testing users' willingness to pay for social media features that until now have been free. From Friday, subscribers Down Under who provide government-issued IDs can start applying for a verified badge, offering protection against impersonation,...

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  Meta Oversight Board to Review More Cases, Expedite Decision-Making Process

  Meta Platforms' Oversight Board announced on Tuesday that it will review more types of content moderation cases and expedite some decisions, as it aims to expand its work. The Oversight Board was created in late 2020 to review Facebook and Instagram's decisions on taking down or leaving up certain content and make rulings on whether to uphold or ov...