Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp down due to 'technical issue'

Users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all experienced connectivity issues on Wednesday evening due to a "technical issue", parent company Meta has said.

The website Downdetector, which provides information on problems with popular apps and websites, showed a spike in outages for all three services at around 7pm Central European Time (CET).

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta posted on social media site X that the company was working to "get things back to normal as quickly as possible."

This story will be updated as more news comes in.