{
  "id": 8855879,
  "title": "Meta's Facebook, Instagram recover after brief outage in US",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/metas-facebook-instagram-recover-after-brief-outage-in-us-8855879",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-21T05:41:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
    "slug": "economic-times-tech",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/metas-facebook-instagram-recover-after-brief-outage-in-us/articleshow/134381047.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The disruption began around 8:55 p.m. ET and peaked at more than 17,000 reports of outages on Facebook and over than 5,000 reports on Instagram, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}