Users reported being unable to access the desktop version of Facebook and Instagram on Sunday afternoon, with the platforms appearing to experience a widespread outage.
Some Facebook users were shown the message "Account Temporarily Unavailable."
Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes.
Outage-tracking website DownDetector recorded a sharp increase in reports of problems affecting both Facebook and Instagram shortly before 2pm.
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