AFP, SAN FRANCISCOFacebook Inc on Wednesday said it was “back at 100 percent” after an outage on all of its services affected users in various parts of the world. Online monitoring service DownDetector reported earlier that the outage began at about midday GMT and affected Facebook as well as its Instagram and WhatsApp services. #Facebookdown and #instagramdown were trending on Twitter as users around the world reported that Facebook and Instagram were not functioning. Thousands of users around the world were reporting outages, with Europe and North America most affected, DownDetector reported. “Yes, we are affected by #instagramdown, too,” the CIA tweeted during the outage.

Source: Taipei Times July 04, 2019 15:56 UTC