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Meta did not specify how many accounts were affected, what triggered the disruption, or when service would fully return to normal. That absence of detail is typical of early-stage incident responses, where the company knows something is wrong before it knows why.\n\nFor most users, a forced logout is an annoyance rather than a crisis. But Meta's platforms underpin a significant share of the global digital ad market, and advertisers who depend on reaching their audiences have limited tolerance for unexplained downtime they can neither predict nor plan around.\n\nMeta has been here before. A six-hour outage in October 2021 took Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp offline simultaneously, exposing the fragility that comes with consolidating multiple massive platforms under a single infrastructure roof. 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