Several of Meta’s social media platforms went down for multiple hours Tuesday before being restored.

Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger were inaccessible from around 10 a.m. Eastern time until the early afternoon, according to DownDetector. Meta did not state what caused the outage, although such problems are often caused by software updates or changes to hardware.

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