WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook suffer worldwide outage

Social media apps Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Whatsapp are currently experiencing downtime.
Many users experiencing issues, unable to log in, refresh messages or utilise the apps’ numerous other functions.
Instagram is showing a server error while Facebook has an error for users trying to login. WhatsApp has failed to load.
At the time of filing this report, no statements have been released by the parent company, Facebook.
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