"Social Media Outage Impact: Small Businesses and Election Groups Affected"

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Facebook and Instagram experienced a global outage, causing users to be logged out and unable to log back in, with many receiving incorrect password errors. Downdetector received reports from around the world, and Meta confirmed the issue, stating that their engineering teams are working to resolve it. The services are now back online, but the cause of the outage has not been disclosed.
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- Facebook and Instagram Service Restored After Users Report Outages, Meta Says The New York Times
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