Facebook and Instagram have gone down in what appears to be a massive outage.

The outage seems to be affecting all products of parent company Meta.

Tracking website Downdetector indicated outages for Facebook, and Instagram affecting multiple countries around the world

People trying to log onto the websites and apps were finding error messages and were unable to refresh their feeds as normal.

Many people thinking they have been hacked after being logged out of their accounts and asked to updated their passwords.

People have been rushing to X, formally Twitter, to complain, post and moan they cannot access Metas services.

Meta has been approached for comment. Its own status page suggests the products are experiencing major disruptions.