Thousands of users across the UK have been left unable to send messages after major social media platforms WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger went down.

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Outage monitoring site DownDetector reported a sharp spike in issues with both Meta-owned apps on Friday afternoon (February 28), with complaints flooding in from across the country.

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