Facebook consumers report celebrity spam flooding their feeds

Facebook consumers report celebrity spam flooding their feeds


Facebook consumers complained of an concern that saw random comments created to movie star Internet pages look in their very own Feed.

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Fb mum or dad Meta verified Wednesday an difficulty with the company’s Feed following a lot of users noted challenges with spam from celebrity internet pages.

“We are knowledgeable that some men and women are getting trouble with their Facebook Feed. We’re functioning to get items back again to typical as promptly as achievable and we apologise for any inconvenience,” a spokesperson for Meta instructed CNBC.

Downdetector, a services the place persons can log complications and outages with sites, had countless numbers of stories of challenges with Facebook, with 81% of grievances similar to the Feed.

A number of end users commenting on Downdetector and Twitter reported an difficulty wherever they would see comments posted by random men and women on superstar accounts showing on their personal Feed. CNBC also witnessed the issue when checking the Feed earlier Wednesday.

The Fb Feed is the key stream of posts of persons that you comply with. It seems that the problem is virtually settled.

Meta’s houses very last experienced key difficulties in Oct when people had been unable to accessibility Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger for numerous hours. That was triggered by backend alterations that triggered “challenges” that interrupted the movement of targeted visitors involving routers in Facebook’s data facilities all around the globe, Facebook explained.

The social media huge has not elaborated on the reason for the latest glitch.



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