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Facebook and Instagram users are experiencing international outages, with over 22,000 U.S. users reporting issues since 3:44 a.m. ET Sunday. Internet watchdogs DownDetector and NetBlocks confirmed the disruptions, which are unrelated to country-level internet disruptions. Meta, the parent company, has been contacted for comment.

Facebook and Instagram are experiencing outages reported by Downdetector, with peak issues in Pakistan and the United States. Outage reports have begun to decline in Pakistan but remain elevated in the U.S. for Instagram. Meta previously faced similar outages in March 2024.

Over 36,000 DoorDash users reported platform issues on Tuesday morning, as indicated by a Downdetector post. The outage has caused widespread disruption among users.

Facebook and Instagram users experienced login issues for about an hour on Friday morning, with Meta-owned platforms returning to normal by 10:20 a.m. ET. Outage tracking site DownDetector also faced technical difficulties during the incident, though the cause of the glitch remains unclear.

Over 100,000 Facebook outage reports were recorded Friday morning, with a spike of nearly 70,000 reports just after 6:30 a.m. according to DownDetector. The total reached 104,000 within 15 minutes.

Users are reporting widespread outages affecting Facebook and Instagram, with over 100,000 outage reports submitted for Facebook and thousands for Instagram. Issues include login failures, feed loading problems, and post publishing errors. Meta has not publicly commented on the outage.

Lloyds Banking Group apologized after an IT glitch disrupted payments and money transfers for customers of its brands, including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland. The issue, reported on Downdetector, began shortly after 11am on Wednesday and affected multiple services across the group's platforms.

Claude, a chatbot and coding tool developed by Anthropic, experienced an outage following the company's IPO filing. Anthropic, valued at $965 billion, faces challenges as users reported disruptions, while competitors like OpenAI and SpaceX also anticipate major IPOs.

Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion. The article, sourced from The Verge, includes a Hacker News comments thread with 71 points and 38 comments.