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Facebook suffered a major outage of its social network on Friday, which also affected other platforms it owns.
Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp were down and users around the world could not use the services correctly.
The Down Detector website and application monitor logged tens of thousands of reports of problems with all four platforms.
Facebook has yet to respond to the outage.
We will have the latest updates on the outage here.
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Anthony CuthbertsonMarch 19, 2021 6:33 PM
Reports of problems with Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp in Down Detector have dropped from more than 100,000 to just a few thousand.
It was a relatively brief outage, but with billions of users around the world it has a massive impact. Still no news from Facebook.
Anthony CuthbertsonMarch 19, 2021 6:32 PM
The service seems to be making a comeback for many users now. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have returned for us at least here.
Anthony CuthbertsonMarch 19, 2021 6:15 PM
Many Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users head to Twitter, as usual during a major outage.
Anthony CuthbertsonMarch 19, 2021 6:11 PM
There is also no news from his various social media accounts. Disruptions have been reported in countries around the world, including Canada, Brazil, France, Russia, the UK, and the US.
Anthony CuthbertsonMarch 19, 2021 6:07 PM
We reached out to Facebook to see what they have today; We will inform you as soon as we have an update.
Anthony CuthbertsonMarch 19, 2021 6:03 PM
This is the moment when Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp went down simultaneously:
Anthony CuthbertsonMarch 19, 2021 5:58 PM
