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The outage that shutdown Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are now back online after they were hit...

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09.43 5 Oct 2021


The outage that shutdown Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram


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09.43 5 Oct 2021


Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are now back online after they were hit by an outage. All three services owned by Facebook could not be accessed over the web or smartphone apps for 6 hours.  Newstalk’s Tech Correspondent Jess Kelly joined us this morning with an update on the outage and the services that were affected.

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