Facebook and Instagram users around the world are having trouble accessing the social media apps on Thursday morning (NZ time), apparently due to an outage. Social media sites Facebook and Instagram are still down, at least six hours after users around the world reported an outage. SCREENSHOT The Facebook website would not load on Thursday morning. READ MORE:* Outage hits Gmail users around world* Facebook takes blame for outages, including InstagramSome users are able to access parts of Facebook, but not all. Earlier on Thursday, some users trying to access Facebook were met with a message saying "Facebook will be back soon".

Source: Stuff March 13, 2019 18:30 UTC