Facebook, Instagram face outages; 500,000 users affected

Writer: Nicholas Karsen
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Person logging onto Facebook. File photo: CBS

Facebook and Instagram are experiencing mass outages, locking out thousands of accounts.

According to downdetector.com, nearly 500,000 outages were reported at around 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday.

It remains unknown what caused the outages or when the social media sites will restore access to users.

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