A Facebook bug caused a situation where ``spam posts are shared with users via celebrity accounts''
Early in the morning of Wednesday, August 24, 2022 local time, a strange bug occurred where the
A Facebook bug spammed celebrity comments to everyone for hours - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/24/23319552/facebook-bug-celebrity-spam-memes-carnage
Facebook down? Users report celebrity spam flooding their feeds
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/24/facebook-glitch-users-report-celebrity-spam-flooding-their-feeds.html
Facebook users report seeing 'random' posts to celebrities in their feed | Science & Tech News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/facebook-users-report-seeing-random-posts-to-celebrities-in-their-feed-12680322
The bug that occurred on Facebook is that ``what a user sends to a celebrity's account is shared with the feeds of all Facebook users who follow the celebrity's account.'' Some Facebook users who noticed the existence of this bug started sending spam messages to celebrities' Facebook accounts in the hope that their posts would appear on the feeds of Facebook users around the world. developing.
Spam messages sent by users include 'PayPal donation links', 'advertising virtual currency related projects', ' Internet memes ', etc. An example is the screenshot below.
It seems that the Facebook feed of Mr. John Porter, who is a reporter at The Verge of overseas media, was as follows.
It's carnage out there folks pic.twitter.com/DgpmcwuiCn
— jon.porter (@JonPorty) August 24, 2022
According to Down Detector, which finds and reports internet service interruptions and connection failures in real time, Facebook is said to have experienced an outage from around 2:00 EST on the 24th, but the connection failure has been reported on Meta's status dashboard . No such issues have been reported.
A Meta spokesperson later told CNBC, ``We are aware that some people are having issues with their Facebook feeds. I apologize for the inconvenience,' he commented. In addition, a spokesperson updated the statement to CNBC, saying, ``Some users had problems with their Facebook feeds due to configuration changes.''
In addition, Alexandre Boyka, a spokesperson for Meta, Facebook's operator, said on Twitter, ``Today, some users' Facebook feeds are experiencing problems due to configuration changes. We have resolved the issue as soon as possible for the benefit of all users. We apologize for the inconvenience.'
Earlier today, a configuration change caused some people to have trouble with their Facebook Feed. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
— Alexandru Voica ???? (@alexvoica) August 24, 2022
According to Sky News reports, Facebook's service has been temporarily suspended in the United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Italy, France, the United States, Poland, and Australia due to this bug.
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