Meta Platforms’s social media offerings Instagram, Threads and Facebook, and messaging app WhatsApp were down for thousands of users across the globe on Wednesday, according to Downdetector.com.

Facebook was down for more than 50,000 users while Instagram was down for more than 23,000 users, according to the outage tracking website.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage could have affected a larger number of users.

He was nominated to the post by Donald Trump in 2017, but the president-elect has said he wants to replace him. 

​He was nominated to the post by Donald Trump in 2017, but the president-elect has said he wants to replace him.  

The Islamic seminary objected to certain amendments to the clauses of the existing bill that the Centre wishes to push through