Facebook and Instagram experienced significant service disruptions across the United States on Sunday, affecting thousands of users. Network monitoring platform DownDetector recorded over 17,000 failure reports for Facebook and more than 5,000 outage reports for Instagram as of 9:11 p.m. Eastern Time. The outage tracking data aggregates status reports from multiple sources to identify widespread platform issues. Both social media platforms operate under Meta Platforms (META.O), though the specific cause of the disruption has not been disclosed.