Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Monday evening have been hit by an outage as users cannot be able to access the services.
The outage, lasting hours has seen users logging tens of thousands of outage reports for all three platforms from around the world.
The WhatsApp and Instagram apps continued to work but did not show new content, including any messages sent or received during the problems.
Facebook’s chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer apologized.
*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible
— Mike Schroepfer (@schrep) October 4, 2021
“We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible,” he wrote.
