Facebook and Instagram down for thousands of users in US
Meta admitted that its AI models had already been trained on all public photos and text posted to Facebook and Instagram by adult users since 2007. (Image: Freepik)
Meta’s social networking platforms Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Sunday, according to Downdetector.com.
There were more than 17,000 reports of issues with Facebook, as of 9:11 PM ET, and more than 5,000 outages on Instagram as well, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.
Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Since the numbers on Downdetector are based on user-submitted reports, the actual number of affected users may vary.
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