SAN FRANCISCO: Major social media services, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, were hit by a massive outage on Monday, tracking sites showed, impacting potentially tens of millions of users.

Outage tracker Downdetector was showing outages in heavily populated areas like Washington and Paris with problems being reported from around 3:45 p.m. (9:45 p.m. in Manila).

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