Facebook has Resolved a Bizarre Bug that Spammed the Main Feed of Users

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A Facebook spokesperson issued a press statement on August 24, 2022. He said a configuration change generated the bug and some people experienced trouble with their Facebook Feed. But the company has now resolved the issue and fixed the bug error. On Wednesday, Facebook indicated that some users are experiencing strange posts on their feeds.

The social platform has also confirmed that it was working to fix the error to resolve the issue. A large number of Facebook users around the world have complained for at least 3 hours about experiencing problems. They were seeing random posts and activity beats to the pages of celebrities from intruders on their timelines.

Moreover, these posts are taking over the main feed of users and crushing the normal stream. It maltreated videos, images, and other information shared with other users. The presence of the bug was the first of its kind detected in memory. Moreover, your activities and posts on a celebrity page will make an appearance on your feed. It happens when a stranger posts to or engages with your liked celebrity page.

Meta Issued an Official Statement About the Error

Down Detector reported that a large number of users also reported experiencing outage problems with Facebook on Wednesday. Moreover, Down Detector is a 3rd party service to monitor internet services. It is yet to be confirmed whether the outage was connected to the above-mentioned error. A spokesperson for Meta, Alexandru Voica issued a statement.

Meta spokesperson said the company is aware that some people are experiencing issues with their Facebook Feed. The company is working to bring things back to normal more rapidly. The social platform also apologized for any inconvenience and trouble. Keep in mind that Facebook is constantly connecting around 3 billion people through its apps each month.

Facebook Recently Introduced a New “Feed” Tab

Facebook has tried to modernize the news feed this year and renamed it. The company introduced a new “feed” tab to display posts from your family and friends in opposite consecutive order. However, some people started making memes of this unfortunate incident. The popularity of this social network has stumbled during the last couple of years.

The Pew Research Center suggested in a recent study that just 32% of teens aged 13 to 17 are using Facebook. However, only 2% of teens use this social platform on a regular basis. Meta recently posted its first-ever revenue drop in its 2nd quarter of 2022 and in the history of the company. The platform reported a loss in daily active users for the first time in February.

Facebook Users Experienced a Bug

Meanwhile, theverge.com also reported that Facebook users experienced a strange bug on Wednesday morning. The reported bug filled user feeds with a large number of posts from celebrity accounts. It flooded the main News Feed of users with minor posts sent to pages for artists such as The Beatles. The issue was resolved after creating 3 hours of trouble.

Meta spokesperson also blamed an unidentified ‘configuration change’ for this problem. The spokesperson also said on Twitter that the company has resolved this issue. Some users rapidly benefited from the bug and started sending memes to celebrities. One massively shared image shows pictures of a turkey sandwich with a caption and some found spamming PayPal donation links.