BATON ROUGE — Facebook is allegedly experiencing a large outage as users began reporting issues, according to several news outlets, along with Down Detector. 

Users began reporting issues with the platform around 8 a.m. on Friday, as over 100,000 problems were reported with the platform by 9 a.m., according to Down Detector. 

Users on Instagram also reported issues as people struggled to gain access to the platform. 

While Facebook has yet to give an official statement, a message on the Messenger Platform status page for Meta reads, "We are currently experiencing high disruptions impacting Messenger Platform. Our engineering teams are investigating the issue."