Facebook is currently experiencing a widespread outage, with thousands of users reporting problems accessing the platform, British media outlet UNILAD reports.

According to outage tracking site IsDown, more than 5,700 user reports have been submitted in the past 24 hours, with the site confirming it is detecting active issues with Facebook’s service as of Friday afternoon.

In the evening, users were automatically logged out and found themselves unable to log back in. Instead, they were shown an error message indicating that “an unexpected error occurred”.

The main Facebook website also showed a similar error. Visitors were told that “something went wrong” and that the company is “working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can”.

The problems appear to be affecting users across multiple countries, with the United States and the Philippines among the locations generating the highest volume of reports.

Users in Bangladesh are also experiencing disruptions, with many reporting difficulties in accessing the platform.

Meta does not operate an official status page for its consumer products. It does have one for its business tools, but at the time of publication it did not appear to have been updated to reflect the outage.