Our original report follows. WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger have gone down for users around the world. Thousands of users have reported problems accessing the Facebook-owned apps to outage tracking website DownDetector. Facebook is yet to provide any official response to the outages, but users are flocking to Twitter to complain about the issue.

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Meanwhile Twitter headquarters: pic.twitter.com/lIp0CRcCdr — Awais (@Mr_wasie) March 19, 2021 We’ll update this piece when the outage ends or when we hear an official response.