UPDATE (3:56 p.m.): Facebook service appears to have been restored to some users. It is unclear what caused the short outage.
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TORONTO – No, it’s not just you. Many Facebook users are reporting that the social network is down.
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Users began reporting the outage around 3:30 p.m. EST Wednesday. Both Facebook’s website and mobile apps appear to be affected.
“Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can,” reads an error message on Facebook’s desktop site.
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According to reports, the outage appears to be affecting users in the U.S. and Canada, as well as other parts of the world.
Facebook has not yet commented on the outage.
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