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Thursday 28 October 2021 10:17 am  |  Updated:  Friday 29 October 2021 11:56 am

Facebook crashes… again

By: Leah Montebello

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Hundreds have reported an outage on the Facebook platform this morning, just weeks after the site globally crashed for eight hours.

Problems were said to start in the UK around 9am this morning but it’s currently unclear whether this was a Facebook-wide issue.

Downdetector tweeted from its UK account: “User reports indicate Facebook is having problems since 9:24 AM BST”, and hundreds of other users have complained.

City PM have approached Facebook for comment on this potential technical glitch.

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