Instagram and Facebook experienced outages around the same time Thursday afternoon that plagued thousands of users worldwide. A Facebook spokesperson told DailyMail.com: 'Earlier today some people may have had trouble accessing our family of apps due to a network configuration change.' The Instagram outage was hitting parts of California, New York City and southern Florida all highlighted red on DownDetector's outage map. The majority of Facebook users reported being unable to see pictures while others said their news feeds weren't loading. A Facebook spokesperson declined to specify the nature of the outage, stating only that it was a 'network error.'

Source: Daily Mail September 17, 2020 18:31 UTC