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Facebook and Messenger experience outages, affecting users around the world as reports mount on social media platforms.
MANILA, Philippines – Facebook’s social media platform and Facebook Messenger chat app went down on Friday night, June 12.
Reports began around 9pm, Philippine time, with thousands reporting problems with the Facebook site within an hour via Downdetector.ph.
Facebook and Messenger are both unavailable at the time of writing.
Strangely, even Downdetector seems to have issues, as it showed an error 404 page sometimes, when someone tried to check the status of said sites.
The problem did not seem to be isolated to the Philippines like many other international news sites – such as Newsweek, CNETand Independence – reported problems with social networking sites as well. On the Reddit subreddit for Facebook, a thread about outage issues so far they have received more than 3,000 comments, with many users reporting their problems.
X users have also provided discussion on Facebook and Messenger are down. – Rappler.com
