Just before 5:30 p.m., the number of reported outages on Facebook had dropped to just over 1,200, Instagram reports fell to about 1,900 from a peak of more than 68,000 and reports of issues on WhatsApp and Messenger were far below their peaks.

More than 100,000 Facebook users reported outages Wednesday afternoon. Other Meta apps also went down. Here's what to know.

There has been a spike in Facebook and Instagram outages across the country since 1 p.m. At 1:20 p.m. ET, Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, showed over 105,00 reports of Facebook not working,