A Facebook bug spammed celebrity comments to everyone for hours
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#62V73)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook experienced a bizarre bug on Wednesday morning that filled user feeds with endless posts from celebrity accounts. Multiple Verge staffers who attempted to use the social media network experienced the same issue, where their main News Feed was flooded with minor posts sent to pages for artists like Lady Gaga, Nirvana, and The Beatles. As of 5:15AM ET the issue appears to have been resolved after creating three hours of chaos.
Writing on Twitter, Meta spokesperson Alexandru Voica blamed an unspecified configuration change" for the problem, and said it had since been resolved.
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