Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
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Facebook Inc.’s FB -5.59% platforms including WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook appeared to be down Monday, with users receiving error messages when trying to access the sites.
Downdetector, a site that monitors website outages, posted to Twitter that the sites were down. The outages appeared to be widespread, with users in multiple countries affected, Downdetector’s website showed. But the full impact was unclear.
Andy Stone, a communications representative for Facebook, said the company is aware that people are having issues connecting with its apps and social-media sites. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” he said on Twitter.
The outage comes a day after the whistleblower who provided documents that formed the foundation of The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series went public. Frances Haugen, a former product manager at Facebook, said she acted to help prompt change at the social-media giant.
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