Metro-East News

Oh no! Facebook is down for thousands of users.

A Facebook outage was affecting thousands of users across the United States on Saturday morning.

Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, began having trouble shortly ater 8 a.m. Saturday. Thousands of users reported not being able to log in.

The issues appeared to also be affecting Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.

Facebook did not immediately release information on what was causing the problem.

This story was originally published August 26, 2017 at 9:12 AM with the headline "Oh no! Facebook is down for thousands of users.."

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