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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Anthony Cuthbertson

Facebook down: Outage for hundreds of thousands of users across US

Facebook has stopped working for users across large parts of America amid a major outage.

Visitors to the website were greeted with the message: "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can."

Down Detector, a service that monitors website outages, received more than 700 reports of the social network being down on Monday, 12 November.

Outage reports mainly stemmed from the east coast of the US, though users in Brazil, Peru and Mexico also reported issues.

Facebook's issues appear to be contained to the east coast of the United States and certain regions in Central and South America (Down Detector)

Hundreds of Facebook users also took to other social media platforms like Twitter in order to vent their frustrations. 

Outages on Facebook are unusual, but with more than 2 billion users worldwide, any issues with the site can have far-reaching consequences.

A spokesperson for Facebook was not immediately available for comment.

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