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WhatsApp was down in Meta’s second big outage this year

For the second time in just over a month, Meta's apps including WhatsApp, and possibly Messenger and Instagram, are facing outages and intermittent

For the second time in just over a month, Meta’s apps including WhatsApp, and possibly Messenger and Instagram, are facing outages and intermittent issues. (In our own tests, Meta’s apps were loading and we could send messages via WhatsApp which indicates either the outages were not global in nature or they’ve already been fixed.) On Super Tuesday in the U.S.(March 5, 2024), Facebook, Instagram, and Threads were all down, leading users to experience error messages that “something went wrong” or they were taken to a landing page where they were logged out and couldn’t get back in.

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