Facebook-owned apps — including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram — are experiencing a major global crash, user reports and real-time monitors confirmed late Friday.

Users around the world reported that all the apps — WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram — were experiencing outages,

Down Detector, a website that monitors app crashes in real-time from around the world, showed more than 4,000 users reporting problems with WhatsApp from around the world.

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