By Reuters | Updated: 9 March 2023
Instagram was down for thousands of users globally on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
More than 46,000 users reported issues with accessing the photo-sharing platform in the US at the peak of the outage, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Downdetector showed about 2,000 affected users from the UK, and more than 1,000 reports each from India and Australia.
Instagram was down for thousands of users globally on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
More than 46,000 users reported issues with accessing the photo-sharing platform in the US at the peak of the outage, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Downdetector showed about 2,000 affected users from the UK, and more than 1,000 reports each from India and Australia.
The board, which has 22 members, said it will now begin publishing decisions on some cases on an expedited basis. Rulings could come as quickly as 48 hours after accepting a case, while others could take up to 30 days.
Standard decisions, in which the Oversight Board reviews Meta’s content moderation actions in depth, can take up to 90 days.
Publishing more decisions and increasing the pace will “let us tackle more of the big challenges of content moderation, and respond more quickly in situations with urgent real-world consequences,” the board said in the blog post.
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