FACEBOOK appears to have been hit by a serious outage.
Many users are reporting that they are unable to access the social networking site, or pages are not displaying correctly.
Many users are met with the following message when trying to access the site.
Website, Downdetector, which collates website and communications outages shows a large spike in people reporting problems within the last hour.
Picture: Downdetector
The problem appears to be affecting users in Europe.
However, other users appear to be unaffected.
Picture: Downdetector
People have taken to other social networks to report the problem.
#facebook is down and the internet is going crazy. Most interesting.
— Carlton Daniel (@carlton_daniel) August 23, 2017
@facebook website down. Total blackout. The app is working though.
— Raktim Hazarika (@_raktimhazarika) August 23, 2017
However, there is a simple way to get Facebook working again.
Simply hold the shift key (the one that looks like an upwards arrow) and click the refresh button on your browser. Or, hold the shift key and press F5.
This is known as a 'hard refresh' and forces the browser to clear the computer's cache and load the most recent version of the page.
Voila!
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