Facebook crashes for users in several countries including Sri Lanka

11 Oct, 2017

Facebook users around the world including some in Sri Lanka, have experienced an outage of the social network.

Users report being unable to use the site, and others report unusual behavior including elements such as the “post” box not appearing.

The outage of the network is being tracked by?independent site Down Detector, where users continue to report issues.

Facebook is aware of the issue, but hasn’t provided any more information about what might be behind the outage. “We?re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram,” a Facebook spokesperson told?Mashable?in an emailed statement. “We?re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.?

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