SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook and its apps Instagram and Whatsapp appeared to be experiencing issues on Monday that resulted in connection trouble and the inability to load newsfeeds for thousands of users around the world, according to the company.The company did not say what might be causing the outage, which began around 11:40 a.m.
ET and was still unfixed more than six hours later, although scattered users have reported partial restoration of one service or another.