Article 5D7AV Facebook says ‘configuration change’ caused some users to be logged out unexpectedly

Facebook says ‘configuration change’ caused some users to be logged out unexpectedly

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Kim Lyons
from The Verge on (#5D7AV)
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Facebook says some users were logged out of their accounts unexpectedly Friday due to a configuration change," and the issue has been fixed as of Saturday morning.

On January 22, a configuration change caused some people to be logged out of their Facebook accounts. We investigated the issue and fixed it for everyone earlier today. We're sorry for the inconvenience," a Facebook company spokesperson said in an email to The Verge.

So Facebook, heard it was a "configuration change".

to the engineers who fixed the issue and patiently tried to explain the cause to us to no avail. https://t.co/AUARhCZ7W2

- Facebook App (@facebookapp) January 23, 2021

The problems began late Friday ET, with users on the r/Facebook Reddit board r...

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