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Washington (AFP) β€” US tech giant Meta said Tuesday it had fixed a global outage affecting its messaging service WhatsApp after users around the world complained that they were unable to send or receive messages.

Problems with the hugely popular service were reported by monitoring site Downdetector and user complaints on social media.

The hashtag #whatsappdown was one of the most trending on Twitter across the world, while millions of messages on Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram also flagged the outage.

The origin of the outage was unclear.

Meta, previously known as Facebook, bought WhatsApp in 2014. The service is wildly popular especially outside of the US, where many people use it for everyday communication.

The tech company suffered an unprecedented outage last year affecting its leading social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.

The duration and scale of the disruption to the four services used by billions of people led to a major incident that Downdetector described as one of the largest ever observed.

At the time, Facebook acknowledged that the incident was due to an error on their part and not a technical problem.

]]> India restores 4G internet services in parts of Kashmir https://millichronicle.com/2020/08/india-restores-4g-internet-services-in-parts-of-kashmir.html Sun, 16 Aug 2020 19:02:41 +0000 https://millichronicle.com/?p=12978 Srinagar (Reuters) – India on Sunday restored high speed 4G internet services in two districts of Kashmir after the Supreme Court last month said an indefinite shutdown of the internet there was illegal.

The communications lockdown had been imposed after partial autonomy of the Muslim majority region was scrapped by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year.

Authorities had said the security situation was not conducive to restoring mobile internet access. β€œThe high speed mobile data services in the districts of Ganderbal and Udhampur shall be restored forthwith, on a trial basis,” a government statement said on Sunday, adding the internet speed would continue to be restricted in other cities.

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