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Facebook down: Messenger and app not working in huge outage

Facebook has experienced a significant global outage, affecting its main app and website, as well as Facebook Messenger, with users being automatically logged out and unable to log back in.<br>Users attempting to access the services were met with error messages such as 'an unexpected error occurred' or 'something went wrong', indicating the company was working on a fix.<br>While other Meta services like Instagram and WhatsApp appeared to remain largely online, some products, including Instagram's website, also suffered from related issues.<br>The problems began around 6.45am Pacific time, which is 2.45pm in the UK, with reports of outages spanning across the world.<br>Meta does not maintain an official status page for its consumer products, and its business tools status page was not updated to reflect the widespread disruption.

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