Zuckerberg, Lost 7B USD In 3 Hours After Instagram, Facebook And Whatsapp Down

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp are all currently offline. Facebook acknowledged the outages on Monday but did not say why its websites and applications were down.

Reports on DownDetector.com suggest the outages began around 12 p.m. ET. Facebook employees were also unable to use the company's internal email on Monday, a source told CBS News.

"We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app," the company said in a statement. "We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience."

Mike Schroepfer, the company's chief technology officer, also tweeted an apology: *Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook-powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible."