Facebook largely back up after brief outage in the US, Downdetector shows


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March 3 (Reuters) - ⁠Meta Platforms' Facebook was largely ⁠back up after an outage ‌that affected thousands of users in the U.S. on Tuesday, according to Downdetector.com.

At its ​peak, there were ⁠more than 11,000 ⁠reports of issues with the social ⁠media platform ‌in the U.S., before coming down to ⁠about 1,200 as of 06:11 p.m. ​ET, according ‌to Downdetector.

Downdetector tracks outages by ⁠collating status ​reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted reports, and ⁠the actual number of affected ​users may vary.

Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request ⁠for comment on what caused the outage.

Separately, the company's status page indicated high disruptions on Facebook Ads ​Manager, a tool ⁠for creating, managing and analyzing advertising ​campaigns across Facebook, ‌Instagram and other platforms.

(Reporting ​by Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona)

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