Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Are Down In A Huge Outage Across Canada

Don't worry, it's not just you.

Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Are Down In A Huge Outage Across Canada
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*Update: On October 4 around 6:30 p.m. EDT Facebook officials confirmed that their services were coming back online.

According to reports, Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp are all currently experiencing outages.

On Monday, October 4, Downdetector, which is a platform that reports when services are experiencing outages, said that the three popular social media platforms were all experiencing problems.

Facebook and Whatsapp both tweeted about the issue.

Both social media platforms confirmed that they are working to "get things back to normal."

Some even took to Twitter to verify the news as well as share some funny memes about the situation.

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