Did Facebook log you out on Tuesday? What happened to the Meta apps? WSOC TV [Video]

Facebook and Instagram went down Tuesday, with users reporting that they could not get Instagram to load and Facebook sessions were logging out.

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While Meta, the parent company for both social media platforms, was quiet as it assessed the problem, an internet intelligence team suggested that the Meta outage was probably caused by an issue with a backend service such as authentication, Forbes is reporting.

The issues with Facebook and Instagram started around 10:45 a.m. EST, with people reporting they couldn’t access the apps or had been signed out of them.

At the peak of the outage, there were more than 550,000 reports of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram, according to outage tracking website Down Detector.

“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue … for everyone who was impacted,” Meta spokesperson Andy …