Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp back up after widespread outages | CBC News

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have been briefly down early Sunday. All 3 social media platforms, together with Facebook Messenger, have been suffering from the outage.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were temporarily down early Sunday. All three social media platforms, including Facebook Messenger, were affected by the outage.Original article
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