Facebook and its social media apps Instagram and WhatsApp are not functioning across the world with some customers facing outages that last hours.
Unidentified technical problems are causing widespread disruptions with users reporting issues since noon on Wednesday.
Facebook acknowledged the issue in a tweet saying they were aware of the problems and were working to fix it adding that it was not a denial-of-service brute-force attack that involved networks being flooded with fake traffic to cause service disruptions.