Call it a perfect social media-free storm.

Facebook's three social platforms — Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — all experienced outages on Wednesday morning.

According to Down Detector, there were problems around the world. Outages were concentrated in the eastern United States, and parts of Europe and South America.

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The trouble seems to have started around 7 a.m. E.T. and persisted into the morning.

Users had trouble posting stories and posts on Facebook and Instagram, and viewing media content on all three platforms.

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down...zuck sort it out, my millennial office can't cope pic.twitter.com/i4R3KwVNdF — felicity (@felicityjoyce) July 3, 2019

Instagram went down for multiple hours just weeks prior, which caused some on social media to complain about the seemingly frequent problems.

Instagram down? Again? Cant even upload a story pic.twitter.com/0gK300qhGW — gisela (@gisxmk) July 3, 2019

i have to search "instagram down" on twitter once every two weeks can they PLEASE get their shit together i'm tired 😔✌️ pic.twitter.com/8FXZD86GYF — noah (@zeekofried) July 3, 2019

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp may be distinct social networks, but they're sharing more and more behind-the-scenes architecture these days. Facebook is integrating the technology that runs the messaging systems of all three. And Facebook is reportedly exerting more managerial control over the other platforms.

Huge media outage across multiple services? I can't send or receive images or videos through WhatsApp, fb messenger, Instagram messaging, or load stories on Instagram. Is this what happens when everything is run by the same company? — David Burkfart (@davidburkfart) July 3, 2019

We can't say whether that's affecting the outage, but it's no coincidence they're all part of the same mothership. Mashable has contacted Facebook to learn more about the outages, and will update this story when we learn more.

UPDATE: July 3, 2019, 11:24 a.m. PDT Facebook has confirmed the outages to Mashable, and provided the following statement.

"We’re aware that some people and businesses are currently having trouble uploading or sending images, videos and other files on our apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible,” a Facebook Spokesperson said.

UPDATE: July 3, 2019, 1:11 p.m. PDT Facebook has shared more information about the cause of the outage.