Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp working again after global outage took down platforms
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/04/facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-hit-by-outage
Users in UK, US, Australia and other countries found services inaccessible, prompting company apology
Facebook experienced one of the worst outages in its history on Monday, leaving users around the world unable to access its platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, for several hours.