Facebook has restored Unilad's page hours after deleting the viral news website, which has more than 34 million likes, with the social media giant stating the page had been banned for violating its posting policy.

Unilad confirmed to the Telegraph that the page had been deleted by Facebook. The original page has since been restored, although Facebook has given no reason as to why the page was temporarily banned.

The page was down from the early hours of Friday morning, with one user claiming they managed to get the page deleted over posts about the death of US rapper Gustav Åhr, known as Lil Peep.

Unilad is known for posting viral videos and news stories, which has seen it grow into one of the most popular Facebook media pages, recording three billion views per month.

A second Unilad Facebook page has since been created. Users trying to reach the website's old Facebook page were met with the message: "This page isn't available The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed."

According to one Twitter user, the page had been reported due to user comments over the death of Lip Peep. "To be fair wasn't Unilad's fault," they said, "but the comments on the post were disgusting. Inhumane. Someone died."