Fastest VPN for Facebook
Unblock Facebook with Lantern
Facebook is blocked in countries home to billions of people. For many, it's not just social media - it's how they stay in touch with family, run businesses, and access news. Lantern gets you connected.
How to access Facebook with Lantern
Step 1: Get Lantern
Download Lantern on your phone or computer. It's free.
Step 2: Open and Connect
Open Lantern and tap to connect. Lantern picks the best protocol for your network automatically.
Step 3: Open Facebook
Go to facebook.com or open the Facebook app. You're connected.
Where is Facebook blocked?
Facebook is one of the most widely blocked platforms in the world. Governments restrict it for political control, during periods of unrest, or as part of broader internet restrictions.
Permanently blocked:
- China — blocked since 2009, cutting off 1.4 billion people from the platform1
- Iran — blocked since 2009, along with most Western social platforms2
- North Korea, Turkmenistan — no access to Western internet services
- Russia — blocked since March 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Meta (Facebook's parent company) was designated an "extremist organization" by the Russian government.3
Blocked during crises or intermittently restricted:
- Myanmar — Facebook was blocked after the 2021 military coup. Before the coup, Facebook was effectively the internet for much of Myanmar's population.4
- Bangladesh — has restricted Facebook during protests and political unrest5
- Uganda — blocked Facebook ahead of the 2021 elections5
- Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia — have temporarily blocked or throttled Facebook during various crises5
Workplace and school networks: Facebook remains one of the most commonly blocked sites on corporate and educational networks. If you can't access Facebook at work or school, Lantern routes around those blocks too.
Why Facebook blocking has outsized impact
In many countries, Facebook isn't just a social network. It's infrastructure. In Myanmar before the 2021 coup, Facebook was how people accessed news, ran small businesses, and communicated with family.4 In parts of Africa and South Asia, Facebook's free data programs made it the first internet experience for millions of people.6
Blocking Facebook in these contexts doesn't just cut off a social media app. It cuts off people from their primary communication tool, their small business customers, and their news sources.
Why Lantern works when other VPNs don't
The countries that block Facebook also tend to invest heavily in VPN detection. China's Great Firewall, Iran's filtering system, and Russia's TSPU all actively identify and block standard VPN protocols.7
Lantern uses a different approach. Instead of relying on a single protocol, Lantern runs more circumvention protocols than any other VPN — including Shadowsocks, VLESS, Hysteria 2, and Tor pluggable transports. These protocols are designed to look like normal web traffic, making them much harder for firewalls to detect and block.
Lantern automatically tests your connection and picks the best protocol for your network. If one path is blocked, it tries another. This adaptive approach is why Lantern has stayed reliable in China for over 12 years — not by winning one protocol battle, but by having more options than any censor can block at once.
Lantern is a nonprofit with over 250 million downloads and 12+ years of operation. It's built for exactly this.