Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp experienced a global outage

The Facebook social network, as well as WhatsApp and Instagram instant messengers belonging to the company, failed.

Problems are observed both with access to applications and desktop versions of Facebook and Instagram.

According to data , the failure is global. Downdetector

The reasons for the failure are still unclear. The companies said they are working to restore access.

Due to the failure of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, users began to massively switch to other social networks and instant messengers - this led to slowdowns in other major services, including Twitter, Telegram and YouTube.