Facebook users around the world are still reporting issues logging into and posting on the site as well as on Instagram and WhatsApp.
The company acknowledged the outage in a tweet saying they are e aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps.
It says they are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
Facebook later confirmed the problem was not the result of a DDoS attack, which refers to a Distributed Denial‑of‑Service attack in which a hacker overwhelms a site by flooding it with fake traffic.
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