{"id":144761,"date":"2022-08-25T01:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T06:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/facebook-bug-causes-users-feeds-to-be-spammed"},"modified":"2022-08-25T01:23:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T06:23:58","slug":"facebook-bug-causes-users-feeds-to-be-spammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/facebook-bug-causes-users-feeds-to-be-spammed","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Bug Causes Users\u2019 Feeds to Be Spammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-bug-causes-users-feeds-to-be-spammed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook suffered a bug leading to users\u2019 feeds being spammed with posts from strangers on the pages of celebrities on the site earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>The social media platform\u2019s parent company Meta blamed the problem on a \u201cconfiguration change\u201d in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/08\/24\/facebook-down-why-is-my-news-feed-showing-celebrity-memes-17234378\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro.co.uk,<\/a> adding: \u201cWe resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The technical glitch meant that when anyone posted a comment on a celebrity\u2019s page, it appeared on the feed of anyone who followed that celebrity. This issue reportedly began at around 6.30 am BST on Wednesday, August 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook suffered a bug leading to users\u2019 feeds being spammed with posts from strangers on the pages of celebrities on the site earlier today. The social media platform\u2019s parent company Meta blamed the problem on a \u201cconfiguration change\u201d in a statement to Metro.co.uk, adding: \u201cWe resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}