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Facebook down: Meta’s social media platform back online for desktop following unexplained outage
Social media platform Facebook appears to be functioning as normal following a momentary downperiod.
Users reported receiving an error message about 10.22am (AWST) on Thursday when trying to access the platform on desktops.
Mobile appeared to be unaffected.
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According to platform Downdetector, 1500 reports of Facebook outages were reported.
However at 11am (AWST) Facebook appears to be functioning normally again.
