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Facebook, Instagram, and Threads were all down

Meta’s network is down — except for Whatsapp.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. The three Meta-owned platforms aren’t working for many users, with the widespread outage seeming to start around 10AM ET. Reports on DownDetector rapidly spiked for allthreeplatforms this morning, and Meta has yet to acknowledge the issue The Verge reached out to Meta to see if it’s working on a fix but didn’t immediately hear back.

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