FILE - The WhatsApp icon is seen connected an iPhone successful Gelsenkirchen, Germany, connected Nov. 15, 2018. People astir the satellite are reporting problems sending and receiving messages connected the fashionable chat app WhatsApp. According to Downdetector, which tracks outage reports, radical started reporting problems astir 3 a.m. EDT. connected Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File) (Martin Meissner, AP)

LONDON – People astir the satellite are reporting problems sending and receiving messages connected the fashionable chat app WhatsApp.

According to Downdetector, which tracks outage reports, radical started reporting problems astir 3 a.m. EDT.

A WhatsApp spokesperson said the institution is alert that immoderate radical are having occupation sending messages and is moving to reconstruct work arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.

Meta, antecedently known arsenic Facebook, bought WhatsApp successful 2014. It’s wildly fashionable particularly extracurricular of the U.S., wherever galore radical usage it for mundane communication.

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