Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp suffer 6+ hour outage

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Facebook is suffering its worst outage since 2008. Services for all three Facebook-owned social networks went down just before noon ET. At time of writing this post, they have been down for more than 3 hours…and counting. CBC, CNBC

Users flocked to Twitter, as often happens, to learn more about the outage and get their social media fix.

https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1445078208190291973
https://twitter.com/michaelgatesjr/status/1445114347748040709
https://twitter.com/Jehangirkhan800/status/1445086825333215232

UPDATE: Facebook appears to be back up after approximately 6 hours of outage. (6pm ET)

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