Employees of Facebook are investigating issues Tuesday morning that caused errors and delays for some as users reported outages to the social media platform.
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Users also reported outages on Instagram, the photo and video focused social media site also owned by Facebook.
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Facebook officials reported that the company started investigating issues on the site around 5:30 a.m. EST.
According to downdetector.com, a majority of U.S. users who reported issues with Facebook or Instagram on Tuesday morning were on the east coast. Users reported that pages that were slow to load or failed to load entirely, among other issues.
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