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Facebook went down, but it's back now

Facebook went down for some users on Friday.Thousands of bewildered users from across North America and Europe flocked to Down Detector, a website that monitors app and website outages, to flag the issue. Multiple people in Business Insider's New York and San Francisco newsrooms were also unable to connect.It now appears to be working normally again.Here's what affecred users saw when trying to load Facebook's homepage.BIThis story is developing... NOW WATCH: How movie theaters are ruining your movie function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);

Facebook went down for some users on Friday. Thousands of bewildered users from across North America and Europe flocked to Down Detector, a website that monitors app and website outages, to flag the issue.

Facebook went down, but it's back now

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