Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all experiencing outages
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A massive outage on Monday knocked out service to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, taking the sites offline for users across the world.
All three social media giants, owned and operated by Facebook Inc., based in Menlo Park, California, went out of service at 11:39 a.m. ET.
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