Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger are down for many

Facebook-owned apps — including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram — are experiencing a major global crash, user reports and real-time monitors confirmed late Friday.

Users around the world reported that all the apps — WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram — were experiencing outages, Down Detector, a website that monitors app crashes in real-time from around the world, showed more than 4,000 users reporting problems with WhatsApp from around the world.