Users in UK, US and other countries find services inaccessible as company apologises
Facebook has admitted that its users are having “trouble accessing our apps” after its network of services, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were hit by an outage in several countries, including the UK and the US, affecting millions of people.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp became inaccessible for large numbers of people at about 5pm UK time and were still down at 8.30pm, with the downdetector.com site reporting more than 120,000 outages for Facebook users in the US and nearly 60,000 in the UK. A map on the site showed reports of outages from cities across the US and UK.
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