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Thousands of Facebook users in Greece and abroad have been reporting connection problems over the past hour.

The outage monitoring app downdetector said hundreds of users of Facebook and other Meta platforms, such as Instagram and Messenger, reported problems with use. Real-time monitoring shows the problems spiked and then abated.

In a recent announcement, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Instagram is experimenting with a feature allowing users to disable read receipts in Direct Messages (DMs). Although no specific release date was mentioned, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared a preview of the upcoming read receipts toggle during a broadcast.

Air France customers can now get their boarding pass on Facebook Messenger. Soon they will be able to receive other useful travel information to Messenger, such as Booking Confirmation and Booking Reservation, Registration Reminder, and Real-time Flight Notifications.

Athens’ Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (AIA) on Wednesday announced that it is the first worldwide to implement a flight live information application through Facebook Messenger. Additionally, it debuted free and unlimited WiFi on all airport premises.

An unmanned NASA spacecraft has crashed on the surface of the planet Mercury, after it ran out of fuel following a successful 11-year mission, the US space agency said April 30.