A slew of Facebook-owned sites are experiencing a worldwide outage, leaving thousands of users unable to connect to social media for several hours. A slew of Facebook -owned social media sites are experiencing a worldwide outage, leaving thousands of users unable to connect. Social media users flocked to Twitter to complain about the outage after finding that not only is Facebook down, but Instagram is too. More than a third of Facebook users affected by the outage reported that they were experiencing a ‘total blackout.’Others said they could not refresh the News Feed or log into their accounts. Similar problems cropped up on Instagram and Messenger at roughly the same time.

Source: Daily Mail March 13, 2019 16:37 UTC