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Widespread outage reports started Friday morning.
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp affected.
Meta has not yet explained the disruption.
Facebook is having a rough end to the week, with users reporting widespread problems across Meta-owned apps Friday morning. Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp all began having trouble at 10:15 am ET.
Right now, Meta has not publicly explained what's causing the disruption.
Downdetector shows more than 80,000 reports of problems with Facebook, while Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp also have spikes in user complaints. Downdetector and ZDNET are both owned by Ziff Davis.
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