UPDATE 10/4/2021: It appears as though all of Facebook's services have been restored, along with What's App, Instagram, and Oculus VR. It's unclear exactly what caused the outage, but it lasted several hours, and other online services were seemingly impacted as well, though not quite on the same scale as Facebook.

Original story follows.

Facebook remains one of the most popular social media websites on the Internet, but the juggernaut is currently experiencing a major outage. Facebook, Instagram, and What's App are all currently experiencing a major service outage that appears to be impacting basically every user. Facebook and its associated social media services are completely inaccessible at the time of this writing, with no indication as to why.

It's unclear what's caused this Facebook service outage or how long it will last. Facebook has not provided any kind of explanation on other social media sites that it has a presence, like Twitter, so all users can do at this time is speculate. Facebook is a massive company whose success depends on it being readily available to its users, so it seems unlikely that it will let the site stay down for all that long.

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Facebook being down means fans can't access Facebook games, Facebook's streaming services, or anything else that the social media site has to offer. Hopefully those hoping to scroll through Facebook or interact with any of its other features don't have to wait too much longer to get back online. However, there are others who may be happy that Facebook is down.

What's interesting is that Facebook and its associated services have all gone down amid a social media campaign calling on people to Delete Facebook. A whistleblower has indicated that Facebook's algorithm is designed to show people polarizing content because they are more likely to engage with that content. In turn, Facebook users will use the service more and stay on the social media app longer, making it more likely that they see ads and buy things.

This is far from the only controversy that Facebook has found itself in, but it may reignite discussions about the US government breaking up big tech companies or applying more regulations to social media sites. It will definitely be interesting to see what happens in the months ahead.

In the meantime, we will update this article as soon as Facebook's services have been restored.

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