Meta’s fixed the Instagram and Facebook outage
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#657VY)
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Meta says it's fixed an issue that briefly made Instagram and Facebook inaccessible for some users on Friday. During the outage, which was caused by a configuration change" according to Meta spokesperson Monica Wik, some people were completely unable to load the apps and sites, as indicated by reports from Downdetector.com, as well as staff members at The Verge.
Not everyone was affected; some people could load all of Meta's services without an issue, but the problems were seemingly most prevalent for users outside the US, as well as some US residents on the West Coast.
Affected users may have seen some cached content displayed but received an error message about the feed not refreshing, or they may have gotten a page not available"...