THOUSANDS of social media users have reported Facebook and Instagram are currently unavailable.
Facebook users have reported on X, formerly known as Twitter, they have been logged out of the website and the associated Messenger app.
One person wrote: "Did everyone else just get kicked out of their Facebook accounts and prevented from logging back in?"
Another said: "Is Facebook booting anyone else? I log in and immediately logged out."
Instagram and Threads are also reportedly unavailable to users with users seeing a message reading "something went wrong" when loading the apps or websites.
One person joked: "Me running to Twitter to see if anyone else’s Instagram isn’t working."
Website Downdetector has shown a spike in the number of people reporting issues with Facebook, Messenger and Instagram since around 3pm.
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