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Thousands of Facebook users across the United States, including those here in Delaware, experienced widespread service disruptions Tuesday evening when Meta Platforms’ flagship social media site went offline.<\/p>

Outage monitoring website Downdetector.com recorded more than 10,600 user complaints about Facebook malfunctions by 5:37 p.m. Eastern Time. The tracking service compiles problem reports from multiple sources to monitor when popular websites and apps stop working properly.<\/p>

The website cautions that its data comes from people voluntarily reporting issues, meaning the true scope of users impacted could differ from the reported numbers.<\/p>

Meta Platforms has not yet provided an explanation for what triggered the service interruption when contacted for comment about the technical problems.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meta’s Facebook platform experienced widespread technical difficulties Tuesday evening, affecting thousands of users nationwide. Over 10,600 problem reports flooded outage tracking websites by 5:37 p.m., though the company has not yet explained what caused the disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[834],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/news-1772614123885.jpg?fit=450%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbtNqq-8bx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":80651,"url":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/facebook-and-instagram-experience-widespread-service-disruptions\/","url_meta":{"origin":31467,"position":0},"title":"Facebook and Instagram Experience Widespread Service Disruptions","author":"Admin","date":"June 12, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Thousands of users reported problems accessing Facebook and Instagram on Friday morning. 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