Facebook users are reporting that they cannot currently access the social media platform. Problems began affecting the Meta-owned service at approximately 2:30 pm, with users experiencing difficulty loading posts and receiving a "page not found" error message.

 DownDetector recorded over 41,500 reports of the site being down shortly after 2:30 pm today. One user wrote about Facebook: "Website seems to be down in the last few minutes." Another said: "Website and app seem to be down." A third wrote: "Can confirm here in the UK Facebook is down." A fourth said: “It's definitely down. Meta Business Suite giving an error message.”

According to downforeveryoneorjustme.com, there have been nearly 13,000 reports of issues with Facebook, with the first complaint appearing just after 1 pm. The problem appears to be global, with users from the United States, Canada, the Philippines, Spain, and Hungary among those reporting the site as down.

On X, one person wrote: "Both Meta Facebook and Messenger Down," while another said: “Is facebook/meta down for anyone else? I was just scrolling and got logged out of it and messenger too.”

Meta has not yet issued any statement regarding the cause of the outage.h