Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram suffer outage . . .

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram have been hit by an outage lasting more than an hour. Social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, along with messaging app WhatsApp, stopped working on Monday afternoon. The three social networks, which are all owned by Facebook, suffered an outage around 4:40pm on Monday. Downdetector, which tracks outages, logged nearly 80,000 reports for WhatsApp and more than 50,000 for Facebook. Data from the website suggests the outage is affecting user accounts across the world. The company did not say what might be causing…