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Story summary
- Instagram, a platform owned by Meta Platforms, Inc., experienced a brief outage on February 5, 2026, affecting over 10,000 United States users.
- Issues began around 8 p.m. ET and peaked at 8:30 p.m. with 10,108 Downdetector reports.
- Most problems stemmed from Instagram's website rather than its app.
- Users posted error messages on social media during the outage.
- Instagram was restored.
