The social media and messaging platforms were not working properly on Monday morning for users worldwide.
and WhatsApp were down for users around the world on Monday morning, prompting thousands of people to report issues with accessing the social media and messaging platforms.
Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. As of noon on Monday, Down Detector, a website that tracks outages of sites like, had more than 125,000 reports of Facebook being down, close to 100,000 reports of Instagram not working and just over 35,000 reports that WhatsApp was not operating properly.
When accessing the Instagram browser, instead of the normal feed appearing, some users were getting a blank screen with a message about a"5xx server error." Facebook was issuing its standard message for technical glitches, which informed users that"something went wrong" and the platform would"get it fixed as soon as we can."NewsweekFacebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were all down on Monday morning.
Haugen secretly copied thousands of pages of internal research from the company, evidence she believes shows the company is lying about making progress against hate, violence and misinformation on the platform. "The version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing ethnic violence around the world," Haugen toldHaugen took issue with Facebook optimizing content that gets engagement, which is often"hateful,""divisive," and"polarizing." While Facebook took action to combat that during the 2020 election, Haugen said they"turned them back off" or changed settings"as soon as the election was over.
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