Facebook and Instagram are DOWN: Thousands of users report issues with Meta social media platforms 

Facebook and Instagram appear to be down across the UK with thousands of users logging issues accessing the social media sites.

According to DownDetector, more than 2,000 people have logged outages accessing Facebook since 8pm. More than 5,000 people have reported problems accessing Instagram.

Some users are reporting on Twitter that they are seeing system errors when they try and access their accounts, or navigate around the sites.

Others say the sites are just timing out.

One Facebook user said: ‘Open my account for me, Facebook… Every account we open gets blocked without any reason… and you don’t have any support… What is this nonsense?’

This story is being updated.