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WhatsApp and Instagram restored after Meta outages

Over 22,000 people reported issues with Facebook this evening and over 18,000 struggled to use WhatsApp, according to Downdetector.

Users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are reporting difficulties accessing them due to a mass global outage. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience," Meta, which owns the apps, said on X. The biggest outage Meta experienced was in 2021, when founder Mark Zuckerberg apologised for the disruption caused.

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