WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook are back up and running after outages

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WhatsApp went down worldwide on Wednesday afternoon, impacting the 2 billion users of the messaging service. Users started experiencing issues connecting to WhatsApp in multiple countries just after 2PM ET today, with the service stuck on “connecting” for many.Users can still send messages, but they weren’t delivered until WhatsApp came back online.
A status page for Meta’s business APIs was updated to note an outage impacting servi