Facebook largely back up after brief outage in the US, Downdetector shows

Meta Platforms' Facebook was largely back up after an outage that affected thousands ‌of users ⁠in ⁠the US on Tuesday, according to Downdetector.com. At its peak, there were more than 11,000 reports of issues with the social media platform in the US, ⁠before coming ‌down to about 1,200 as of 06:11 p.m. ⁠ET, according to Downdetector.

Downdetector tracks outages ​by collating status reports ​from a number of sources, including user-submitted reports, and the actual number of affected users may vary.

Meta did not ‌immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on ​what ​caused the ⁠outage. Separately, the company's status page indicated high disruptions on Facebook Ads Manager, ​a tool for creating, managing and analyzing advertising campaigns across Facebook, Instagram and other platforms.