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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFacebook/WhatsApp/instagram experiencing problems, outages worldwide
Not allowing users to upload photos, video, not displaying photos in profiles.
Users around the world Wednesday are having problems signing into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook is down at the moment, various news outlets and blogs are reporting, and issues include login features as well as photos and other images failing to load property.
With reports surging throughout the system, the tech site Down Detector has received a wave of reports from users in the United States as well as the United Kingdom and Europe. Of those affected, nearly 83 percent of the reports on Facebook said users are experiencing problems with photos loading, while 10 percent reported issues with the Newsfeed.
Loic Venance, AFP via Getty ImagesIn this file photo taken on May 2, 2019 logos of US social network Instagram are displayed on the screen of a computer and a smartphone, in Nantes, western France.About Instagram, Down Detector says almost 90 percent of its reports involved problems with the news feed; for Whatsapp, 74 percent of reports described issues sending or receiving messages.
Users then headed to to Twitter and expressed a wide range of problems with Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp.
Cant see any pictures or see stories, one uses in the Netherlands reported.
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/07/03/facebook-down-instagram-whatsapp/
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Facebook/WhatsApp/instagram experiencing problems, outages worldwide (Original Post)
ehrnst
Jul 2019
OP
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)1. Same
here!
Thought my internet was slow....
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)2. Yes. I noticed photos are not displaying...
I get blank boxes with keywords like, "This image may contain: dogs, grass, trees, blue sky"
I've never seen those keywords before... Maybe Facebook has introduced some AI image processing feature that is messing stuff up.
Demit
(11,238 posts)3. I've been having trouble for the past several days.
Friends have complained as well.
Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)4. Facebook and related apps are
Intermittently down. I'll look for a link to post.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-down-site-app-not-working-pictures-photos-images-whatsapp-a8986426.html
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)8. Found one:
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)5. Lots of empty boxes
With reload symbols...
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,637 posts)6. Yeah, something's not working. Photos and videos are blank pages.
I think it's on their end and I hope they fix it SOON.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)7. Update: Facebook/whatsapp/instagram user issues worldwide
Users around the world Wednesday are having problems signing into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook is down at the moment, various news outlets and blogs are reporting, and issues include login features as well as photos and other images failing to load property.
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/07/03/facebook-down-instagram-whatsapp/?preview_id=3532662
pangaia
(24,324 posts)9. Three guesses what is happening.....
The first 2 don;t count...
pangaia
(24,324 posts)10. Just before a fascist military "parade' in DC.... hummm.....
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)11. That is interesting., but it's worldwide apparently.
KG
(28,751 posts)12. Incels attack!
Attacking "librul" websites gives them something to do with the other hand.