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Facebook has been suffering from outages across the world since around 12pm ET Wednesday.

All four of the company’s main applications – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger – were encountering problems, according to Downdetector.com. The outages appeared to be concentrated in the Americas and Europe.

“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps,” company spokesman Tom Parnell said by email. “We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.”

According to downdector.com, the outages started in parts of the US, including the east and west coast, parts of Europe and elsewhere.

Both Facebook’s desktop site and app appeared to be affected. Some users saw a message that said Facebook was down for “required maintenance”.

Facebook did not say what was causing the outages, which were still occurring as of 2.15pm ET, or which regions were affected.  …