Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram have been hit by an outage lasting several hours.
All three services are owned by Facebook and could not be accessed over the web or smartphone apps.
Downdetector, which tracks outages, logged tens of thousands of outage reports for all three platforms from around the world.
Facebook’s chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer has tweeted his “sincere apologies” to those affected.
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