Facebook Inc’s Apps go down for millions of users in widespread outrage

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and a handful of other apps suddenly crashed Monday afternoon, turning up error messages to its millions of users around the world. All of the apps that went down are owned by Facebook.
The major outage comes as Facebook finds itself in hot water over its role in and internal knowledge of perpetuating a list of societal ills, including misinformation, depression amongst teenagers and more.