{
  "id": 8912892,
  "title": "Facebook and Instagram went down for thousands of U.S. users before quickly recovering",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/facebook-and-instagram-went-down-for-thousands-of-u-s-users-before",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-21T11:20:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Quartz",
    "slug": "quartz",
    "url": "https://qz.com/facebook-instagram-outage-meta-092126"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Downdetector logged more than 17,000 reports for Facebook and over 5,000 for Instagram on Sunday night before service was restored",
  "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."
}