Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours.

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5 October 2021

Facebook says the cause was a faulty configuration change. All three services are owned by Facebook and could not be accessed over the web or on smartphone apps, for a few hours yesterday.

Merentia Van Der Vent

Merentia joined the media world in 1996 and in 2001, she took her first steps in the broadcasting world. In her free time, she likes to go on adventures in the city. She also likes to learn new dances, not that she is any good at that.

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