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Facebook Messenger is DOWN: Thousands of social media users in US and UK are unable to access app or send messages

  • Users worldwide have complained that Facebook Messenger has gone down
  • Down Detector shows that problems first began to surface at about 14:30 BST

Facebook Messenger has gone down today, with users worldwide complaining of issues.

According to Down Detector, a website which monitors such outages, reports of problems first began to surface at about 14:30 BST (09:30 ET).

Users mostly said they were unable to send messages, but others reported being unable to receive them and some said they could not even access the app.

A number of countries are affected by the outage, including the UK and US.

Facebook’s parent company Meta has not yet revealed a cause for the problems.

It comes just over six months after Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger suffered a two-hour outage in July last year.

Facebook Messenger has gone down today, with users worldwide complaining of issues