Both Facebook and Messenger experienced significant service disruptions on Friday afternoon. Users attempting to log in were met with error messages. NRK received numerous reports of the outage from across Norway. On a global scale, over 100,000 users reported issues via the monitoring site Downdetector. Interestingly, Downdetector itself appeared to be experiencing technical difficulties during the event. The outage affected a wide range of users internationally. No official cause for the disruption has been provided in the text.