Google Meet appeared to suffer an outage on Monday as users reported issues with the tech giant's videoconferencing tool.
User-reported issues with Google Meet began to spike sharply on Down Detector shortly after 1 p.m. ET. It's worth noting that these problems are reported by users and do not always indicate an issue for all users. (Disclosure: Both Down Detector and Mashable are owned by Ziff Davis.)
Google acknowledged Meet was having issues in an update to its app status dashboard. "Some Google Meet customers are experiencing issues with loading the meet UI," the update read, while noting that could mean slow load times or the inability to join meetings.
"Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue," the update read.
Lots of people posted online about problems with Google Meet, some celebrating the sudden cancellation of meetings.
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