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Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including -submitted errors on its platform. b6mr

By Reuters | Updated: 11 July 2023 09:44 IST

Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Whatsapp Reportedly Restored After Global Outage

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Over 14,000 s reported issues with accessing Instagram

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Around 7,000 s reported issues with Facebook
Nearly 2,700 WhatsApp s faced outage globally
The outage could have affected a larger number of s

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Meta Platforms' social media apps Threads were all back up after a brief outage affecting thousands of s on Monday, according to Downdetector.com.

At the peak of the outage, lasting over an hour, over 14,000 s reported issues with accessing Instagram, while around 7,000 and 2,700 s faced issues with Facebook and WhatsApp, respectively.

Meta's newest offering Threads also experienced an outage, with about 470 s reporting problems accessing the app.

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Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including -submitted errors on its platform. The outage could have affected a larger number of s.

Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters query on the outages.

Meanwhile, Meta also plans to label government-d s on its new Twitter-like platform Threads, an executive told an Australian inquiry on foreign interference on Tuesday.

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"Areas such as labels for state-d media and fact-checking are all areas where we see a lot of value, and it's our aspiration to build that out expeditiously," Josh Machin, Meta's head of public policy for Australia, told the Senate inquiry.

The disclosure comes less than a week after Meta launched Threads, which is widely seen as similar to the microblogging site Twitter.

Twitter has removed tags from government-d s since billionaire Elon Musk took it private in 2022, bringing complaints about degrading s' media literacy.

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Asked if Russian state-d broadcaster RT or Chinese government-d publisher Xinhua News Agency would be tagged accordingly on Threads, Machin said, "that's our aspiration".

"To the effect that any state-d media are violating our policies, we would remove them," he told the inquiry. "Broader functionality around tags... are all top priorities for us as we continue to bring out the product."

Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms already have tags on the RT and Xinhua s noting they are state-controlled media from Russia and China, respectively.

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