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The social networks Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have been affected by an outage since around 3:30 p.m.
The social services Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp seem to have been struggling with technical problems since Wednesday afternoon. The portals downdetector.com and AlleStörungen.de have been reporting several technical problems with the popular services since around 3:30 p.m. Many users say that the respective pages are not loading or that they are having problems logging in. Sharing posts is also not possible without errors. While no pictures can be published on Instagram, new posts on Facebook are faulty. This time the problem seems to be particularly affecting Instagram - we are also affected.
What is causing the disruption remains unknown for the time being. The popular WhatsApp messenger also seems to be having problems sending messages. As soon as we have more information on the subject, we will update this article. Facebook was founded in 2004 and now has over two billion users worldwide. Amazon Echo Dot (3rd Gen.) for 19.99 euros – only for a short time
Update
A Facebook spokesperson has given the German press agency details of the company's global outage. According to the spokesperson, there are problems uploading photos, videos, links and other files. According to the spokesperson, the company is working hard to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.
