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Facebook, Instagram, and Threads Are Coming Back Online After a 2-Hour Outage

People around the world reported that Meta's social platforms Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads suffered outages for about two hours this morning.

“We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services,” Andy Stone, communications director at Meta, posted to X. Political ad spending is still overwhelmingly directed towards traditional media (mostly television), but a report from Insider Intelligence found that more than 28 percent of projected political ad spending for 2024 went towards digital platforms, with Meta receiving about 4.5 percent of the $12.32 billion total expected. She previously wrote tech features for Morning Brew and covered New Jersey state government for The Star-Ledger.

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