Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage: what happened and are they back online?

Tens of thousands of users complain after images stop appearing on the social platforms

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(Image credit: Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images)

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp appear to be recovering from a major outage that has caused uproar among social media users worldwide.

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