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A Meta outage hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. Here’s what we know so far

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A major outage is affecting users of popular social media and messaging services including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp around the globe. All these platforms are run by the social media giant Meta.

As news of the outage spread, we learned that it affected almost all of Meta’s products, including Messenger and Threads, as well as...

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