Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram are currently down for tens of thousands of users, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

According to The Independent, Users are unable to load the apps or websites as normal. On Facebook, affected users found they had been logged out and were unable to get on, while Instagram refused to work at all.

There were more than 461,000 reports of outages on Facebook, while there were more than 20,000 reports on Instagram, according to the website, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources, including users.

Meta has yet to publish any update on the outage on its official accounts, such as X.