“It is reported by unidentified Facebook sources on Reddit that the network changes have also prevented engineers from remotely connecting to resolve the issues, delaying resolution. “Many of the recent high-profile outages have been caused by similar network level events. READ MORE: LIVE updates as Facebook, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram are down in huge global blackoutĪdam Leon Smith, of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and a software testing expert, said: “The outage is caused by changes made to the Facebook network infrastructure.

Security experts speculated the problem came following network changes, with the cause still unconfirmed by late Monday evening. The platforms confirmed on Twitter that they were aware of issues and were working to resolve them after thousands of people reported outages shortly before 5pm on Monday. The sites were down for several hours – with users across the globe experiencing issues getting on to them. While it's still not completely clear what happened an outage which affected WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook was down to networking issues, some experts have said.

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