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Facebook and Instagram experience major outage

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Author: Daria Shekina

A major outage occurred on Tuesday, March 5, affecting Facebook and Instagram. Messenger is also not working. Users are complaining about login issues on social media platforms, according to Downdetector.

According to the service, users experienced problems logging into their accounts and updating pages. 60% of users reported issues with web versions.

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Earlier, problems with posting and updating information in posts were also observed.

A widespread outage occurred on Facebook and Instagram.

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The outage also affected other popular services, including Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, WhatsApp, and TikTok.

Meanwhile, the Telegram messenger began to work slower.

"We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now," Meta spokesman Andy Stone tweeted (X).