Facebook is down

Social media Facebook is currently experiencing a widespread outage, with thousands of users reporting problems accessing the platform.

According to outage tracking site IsDown, more than 5,700 user reports have been submitted in the past 24 hours, with the site confirming it is detecting active issues with Facebook's service as of this afternoon, reports UNILAD.

The problems appear to be affecting users across multiple countries, with the United States and the Philippines among the locations generating the highest volume of reports.

IsDown, which has been monitoring Facebook's service health since January 2023 and has tracked 137 incidents in that time, last checked Facebook's status at 2:42pm BST on June 12 and confirmed the platform is having issues.

It is not yet clear what is causing the disruption, how long it has been ongoing, or when normal service is expected to resume.

Facebook's parent company Meta has not yet issued a public statement on the outage at the time of publication.