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Facebook and its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, are slowly coming back online after a widespread outage disrupted services for over 5 hours.

Monday, October 4, 2021 6:25 PM EST

A Facebook spokesman cautioned that it would take some time for the services to stabilize. The company did not disclose the cause of the outage. Security experts said the problem most likely stemmed from a misconfiguration of Facebook's server computers.

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