Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram back after outage

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says.

It blamed an internal technical issue, which not only affected Facebook's services, but reportedly also employees' work passes and email.

The services were down from about 16:00 GMT until around 22:00 on Monday.

But the company said there was "no evidence that user data was compromised".

Sheera Frenkel, the New York Times' technology reporter, told the Today programme part of the reason it took so long to fix...