Instagram down for thousands in US, over 19,000 outages: Report

Meta Platforms’s META.O Instagram was down for thousands of users in the US on Thursday evening, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were more than 19,431 incidents of people reporting issues with the platform, as of 7:25 p.m. ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.