WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram sites all go down in massive outage

They all stopped working a few minutes ago

By Sally Murrer

Published 4th Oct 2021, 17:04 BST

Updated 4th Oct 2021, 17:16 BST

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WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down this afternoon.

The three sites are all owned by Facebook and share infrastructures. They stopped working a few minutes before 5pm.

There is no news yet of when the problem will be fixed.