Facebook Users Report Global Outages Across Social Network

Facebook Inc.’s platforms including WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook appeared to be down Monday, with users receiving error messages when trying to access the sites.

Some internal services used by Facebook employees, including the company’s Workplace tool for communicating among teams, is also down for some employees, according to a company spokesperson.

On Sunday, a whistleblower accused Facebook of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation. The firm owns Instagram and WhatsApp.

Shares of Facebook, which has nearly 2 billion daily active users, opened lower after the weekend whistleblower report and slipped further to trade down 5.3% in afternoon trading on Monday. They were on track for their worst day in nearly a year, amid

As the disruption continued through Monday afternoon, Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer apologized to users on Twitter.

“*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now,” he wrote. “We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.”