Business & Tech
Facebook Down: Major Outage Reported In Northeast US
There's also a widespread outage in Europe, and smaller outages around the world.
MENLO PARK, CA — A major Facebook outage is reported in the northeastern US, including New York, Boston and Washington DC.
Down Detector reports that the outage includes Instagram and WhatsApp.
The outage is also widespread in Europe, and in parts of Asia, Africa and South America.
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Naturally, people took to Twitter in response to the outage.
You know why Twitter users never run to Facebook when it's down? Cause it rarely ever is, because they don't update their site every 27 minutes!!! #facebookdown #instagramdown
— GOAT Custom Graphics (@NateKyng) September 3, 2018
Maybe it will never come back. Maybe we are free. Democracy is saved! #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/0dRNjQRIYr
— annie feighery (@AnnieFeighery) September 3, 2018
Facebook has not responded to reports of the outage.
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