Facebook is currently experiencing a bizarre bug that fills user feeds with endless posts from celebrity accounts. Multiple roadside employees trying to use the social media network this morning encountered the same problem, flooding their main news feed with small messages sent to pages for artists like Lady Gaga, Nirvana and The Beatles.
Users have quickly taken advantage of the bug and are now sending memes to celebrities that they know will be shared far and wide. A widespread image I see on my own feed features a photo of a turkey sandwich with the caption, “If you see this, share it with another celebrity Facebook page, keep the turkey sandwich moving.” It seems that anyone who follows that celebrity will see the image in their feed.
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Other users are taking advantage of the situation by spamming PayPal donation links or promoting cryptocurrency projects.
While it doesn’t appear to be a malfunction in the traditional sense, users have: taken to Downdetector to report the issues starting just before 2:00AM ET. A status dashboard for Meta reports no issues at the time of writing. A representative of Meta did not immediately respond to: The edge’s request for comment.
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