Meta's Facebook, Instagram recover after brief outage in US

Economic Times - Sep 21, 2026

The disruption began around 8:55 p.m. ET and peaked at more than 17,000 reports of outages on Facebook and over than 5,000 reports on Instagram, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources.

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