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Google Meet is currently experiencing a widespread outage.
There are a few workarounds, like using the app or another browser.
Google is investigating the problem.
If you're having trouble with Google Meet today, you're not alone.
Google's popular video conference software, which we named the best video conferencing software for small businesses, is suffering a widespread outage.
Shortly before 2 p.m. ET, reports of an outage began spiking on DownDetector.com, an outage tracking site owned by ZDNET's parent company, Ziff Davis.
After no problems all day, close to 15,000 users suddenly reported issues. Within minutes, users were flooding social media with complaints about missing meetings and classes -- and of course, a few celebrations that the meeting that should have been an email was now toast.
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