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2022 - 8 - 24

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Facebook Down—Facebook Chaos As Feeds Show Random Posts (Forbes)

Facebook users logging into the social network are reporting chaos, with their news feeds showing random posts on celebrity pages. What's going on?

That seems like a lot of work to me—I’d suggest taking some time off the social network until the issue is fixed. It’s more likely the issue is a technical glitch after Facebook has made some changes to its algorithm. “The weird thing is, you don't even have to be following the celebs that are being tagged by all these ppl,” says one Facebook user.

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Facebook users' feeds showing celebrity pages after glitch (1 News)

Reports of issues began to appear on Down Detector, a site to report website outages, around 6.35pm on Wednesday NZT.

"Yes, there is a Facebook glitch. Facebook has not confirmed any outage or issue with the website yet, and there is no evidence to suggest Facebook has been hacked. The issue appears to be affecting people across the world, with users reporting the glitch in the UK, US and Australia.

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What Is Wrong With Facebook? Users Report Celebrity Glitch, Hack (Newsweek)

"Is anyone else's Facebook broken or have I been hacked. This is my entire feed," tweeted @chrismearle while sharing screen grabs of a number of people's ...

What the heck is happening?" "Famous peoples pages tagged in meme or scam posts from random users." #facebookdown #facebookhacked," #FacebookHacked," Still seeing him tagged." "Is anyone else's Facebook broken or have I been hacked.

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Has Facebook been hacked? What has happened to the news feed ... (iNews)

People have been taking advantage of the glitch by flooding celebrity pages with memes, while others have been promoting businesses. Facebook app logo is ...

It has been a rough week for Facebook’s parent company Meta. I don’t know what’s up with Facebook currently, but holy shit is the timeline feed a disaster right now.” If you are worrying you have been hacked you need not be concerned, as the problem appears to be affecting all users.

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Facebook down, Facebook hacked trend on Twitter as random celeb ... (The Indian Express)

Facebook users reported that celebrity spam was clogging their news feed. Memes obviously followed.

A Meta spokeswoman was quoted as saying by Dailymail, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble with their Facebook Feed. [August 24, 2022] Screenshots showing random posts by fans on celebrities Facebook accounts also surfaced online. As users faced outage and glitches, they were quick to storm Twitter with funny memes. Meanwhile, outage reports from the US and UK were in thousands. Thousands of users across the US and UK reported that their news feed is full of celebrity posts sent to popular artists like Eminem, Billie Eilish and [One Direction](https://indianexpress.com/about/one-direction/).

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Did Facebook get hacked? Celebrity comments spam users' walls (Business Today)

Facebook is currently facing a strange bug that is filling the users' feed with posts from celebrity accounts.

RECOMMENDED I’m trying to scroll through my news feed, and all I’m seeing are people posting to pages of people I’m following like Neymar Jr, Eminem, etc. All I can see at the moment is random people from all over the world sharing photos to celebrities' pages. Facebook is yet to make an official statement, but a meme fest has spread on Twitter. It reported complaints from nearly 3,000 users. Social media giant Facebook experienced a mysterious bug today that filled user feeds with endless posts from celebrity accounts.

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Facebook accounts hacked or a bug? Users report their news feed ... (Times Now)

There seems to be a new bug on Facebook, that has resulted in various users noticing posts of random people tagging famous celebrities including Rihanna, ...

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What was wrong with Facebook yesterday? Users thought they'd ... (ABC News)

A person's thumb edges towards a Facebook app icon on a smartphone. Some Facebook users were wondering if their accounts had been hacked after yesterday's ...

- Under "Hacked accounts", click "I think my Facebook account was hacked or someone is using it without my permission" and follow the prompts - Select "Help and support" in the drop down menu - Scroll down to the link that says "If you think your account has been hacked" then follow the prompts

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