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Reason your Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp apps have suddenly stopped working
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Facebook has gone down in an outage that has affected other Meta apps such as Instagram and WhatsApp.
The issues also took down Facebook Messenger, in addition to the main application and website.
While WhatsApp and Instagram encountered fewer issues, the latter's website suffered from problems during the Facebook outage.
Users were automatically logged out and unable to log back in, being given an error message which detailed that "an unexpected error occurred."
The main Facebook website displayed another error, as visitors were told that “something went wrong” and that the company is “working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can”.
Meta doesn't have an official status page for its products, though it does have one for its business tools.
At the time of writing, these were not updated to signal any type of outage.
What tracking websites revealed
Downdetector, a major tracking website that shares information on any online outages, wasn't of much assistance to confused users, as the site had also crashed.
It isn't clear if this was connected to Facebook going down.
Before going offline, it revealed a massive outage beginning around 6:45 am Pacific Time, with problems persisting around the world with Meta products.