Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram users have complained about abrupt loss of access to their accounts.
Though no reason has been given for the outage by Meta, Down Detector, an internet monitoring website, saw a spike in reports of Meta service outages on Tuesday at about 3 pm.
The social media apps and websites had been operating earlier on Tuesday, but since problems arose in the afternoon, users have been unable to log back into their accounts without any prior notice to users.
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It is believed that millions of users of both platforms were affected.
It would be recalled that in 2022, Facebook suffered a global outage.
