Facebook suffered a bizarre glitch today that flooded user feeds with posts from strangers sharing content on celebrity pages.
Thousands of the social network’s 2.8billion global users reported falling victim to the bug, which filled news feeds with random messages and images.
User reports indicate Facebook started having problems at about 7.08 BST (02:30am EDT), according to the website Downdetector, which monitors website outages.
As of around 10:30 BTS (05.30 EDT) most Facebook news feeds appeared to be returning to normal.
The problem appeared to stem from a technical issue with Facebook’s internal systems determining which posts appear in a user’s news feed.
The social media giant confirmed the problem has now been resolved and said a ‘configuration change’ had been the root of the issue.
‘Earlier today, a configuration change caused some people to have trouble with their Facebook feed,’ a spokesman for parent company Meta said.
‘We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone the who was impacted, and we apologise for any inconvenience.’