Global Facebook outage knocks out Messenger and the main app
TL;DR
Facebook and its Messenger app went down in a global outage, logging users out with “an unexpected error” messages while the main site struggled; Instagram and WhatsApp largely stayed online, though some Instagram features were affected. Meta did not provide a consumer status page at the time, Downdetector reported widespread disruption, and updates tracked the outage in a live blog as users and services tried to recover.
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