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Facebook, Instagram down for thousands of users

FILE PHOTO: A Facebook logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

04 Jul 2021 02:45AM (Updated: 04 Jul 2021 03:05AM)

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REUTERS: Social media platforms Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Saturday (Jul 3), according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Users also reported issues with Facebook's online messaging service Messenger.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a series of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outages might be affecting a larger number of users.

Source: Reuters