The web versions of WhatsApp and Instagram have gone offline in a major outage that has taken down Facebook.

Only the websites of the two apps were offline. WhatsApp and Instagram’s apps appeared to be functioning as normal.

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That was in contrast to the outage at Facebook, which knocked all of its apps including Messenger offline, as well as its web version.

All of parent company Meta’s apps – which includes Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – share services behind the scenes, meaning that an outage on one of the products usually comes with issues at others.