Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook all go down in global outage

Users around the world have reported issues with popular social media portals Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook

4 October 2021, 6:11pm
by Karl Azzopardi

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Popular social media portals Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook are facing a major outage across the globe.

The three apps, which are all owned by Facebook, run on shared infrastructure and completely stopped working shortly before 5pm.

We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Facebook (@Facebook) October 4, 2021

Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace, also stopped working.

Facebook application Messenger is also not working.

More to follow.

Karl Azzopardi is Online Editor and an IGM press awards (Human Stories) winner of 2019