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Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp down (update: Back upward)

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Bad news for those who want to cheque on their friends' condition: Facebook is currently down.

Based on Downdetector and Tom's Guide'south ain experiences, Facebook went down around 5:xxx pm ET on April eight. Those trying to get to the site were greeted with an mistake message that read "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed every bit soon equally we can."

Update (v:55 pm ET): Information technology appears that the outage has been stock-still.

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In looking at DownDetector'due south condition page, the trouble appears to be fairly widespread, with users across the U.S. reporting the outage. User comments below betoken that Facebook is suffering outages across the world, too.

The problem does non appear to exist isolated to Facebook, either: Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Oculus — all Facebook-owned backdrop — also look to be inoperative.

The outage is affecting not merely the desktop interfaces, only also the mobile apps for those sites, though we were able to successfully postal service to Instagram from the iOS app.

This is the 2d major outage amongst these sites in the concluding 3 weeks, affecting literally billions of people across the planet.

We have yet to hear an official statement from Facebook, simply volition update this story as we hear more.

Michael A. Prospero is the deputy editor at Tom'south Guide overseeing the home, smart home, drones, and fitness/wearables categories, also every bit all buying guides and other evergreen content. When he'due south not testing out the latest running watch, skiing or training for a marathon, he's probably using the latest sous vide machine or some other cooking gadget.

Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-down

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