{"id":809937,"date":"2026-07-19T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/809937\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T09:51:10","slug":"is-facebook-down-social-media-website-facebook-suffers-major-global-outage-on-desktop-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/809937\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Facebook down?: Social media website Facebook suffers major global outage on desktop devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Thousands of Facebook users have been blocked from accessing their accounts on the social media network\u2019s desktop website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The issue was first reported just after 3.30pm Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Bizarrely, the network\u2019s phone application was working as usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The issue seemed to be affecting users across the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Down Detector registered more than 3000 complaints as of 4pm Sunday, with countless others posting their grievances elsewhere across the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Hours later, the site had yet to be restored.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1da875381d8c8b877eb123817f0b749681297b18.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook users are opening the site to this message. \" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconFacebook users are opening the site to this message.  Credit: Unknown\/Supplied<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of Facebook users have been blocked from accessing their accounts on the social media network\u2019s desktop website.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,44,105],"class_list":["post-809937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-news","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}