the headlines should read, Millions of People Go Outside and Discovers Fresh Air with Facbook down. . I'm off to run errands.



March 5 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms-owned (META.O), opens new tab Facebook and Instagram were down for hundreds of thousands of users across the globe on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
The disruptions started around 10:00 am ET, with more than 300,000 reports of outages for Facebook and about 40,000 reports for Instagram, according to the website.
"We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X social media.