The Facebook logo is displayed next to a screen showing that the Facebook website is down on October 04, 2021 in San Anselmo, California. Social media applications Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are experiencing a global outage that started before 9 a.m. (P.S.T.) on Monday morning. (Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Facebook blames networking issues, not a cyberattack, for long downtime Smoke doesn't always mean fire. Oct 5, 2021 By Jeff Stone