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Massive Facebook glitch floods users’ feeds with celebrity postsWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later.Skip to sections navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerRemember all those random celebrity pages you liked on Facebook when you were 14? Well, if you logged on to Facebook on Wednesday afternoon you certainly got a reminder.A serious glitch in Facebook’s algorithm has flooded users’ feeds with random fan messages posted to huge celebrity accounts such as Taylor Swift, Shakira, Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga and Eminem.Fan posts made to celebrity pages such as Taylor Swift’s flooded user pages.Credit:Twitter user @RegannaSwiftUsers have clocked on to the meltdown and have started spamming celebrity accounts with posts and memes, exacerbating the chaos on the platform. More opportunistic users are posting QR codes to their PayPal and Cash App accounts or plugging their businesses and Spotify accounts.Downdetector, a site that tracks app and website meltdowns through user reports,  » Read More

Facebook suffered a bizarre glitch today that resulted in users' feeds being flooded with posts from strangers sharing content on celebrity pages. Thousands of the social network's 2.8 billion global users reported falling victim to the bug, which filled news feeds with messages, memes and images. MailOnline found that some trolls took advantage of the glitch to post torrent of spam on celebrity pages, including PayPal links, cryptocurrency ads and even links to pornography. This spam was then broadcast to the feeds of the millions of people who follow the public figures.   The problem appeared to stem from a technical issue with Facebook's internal systems determining which posts appear in users' news feed. People started reporting the issue at about 7.08 BST (02:30 EDT), according to the website Downdetector, which monitors website outages. By around 10:30 BST (05.30 EDT) most Facebook news feeds appeared to be returning to normal. The social media giant confirmed the problem has now been resolved and that a 'configuration change' was the root of the issue.   » Read More

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Jamey Rootes, the former longtime president of the Houston Texans, has died, his wife said on Monday night.In a Facebook post, Melissa Wildgen Rootes said her husband passed away on Sunday after "a battle with mental health issues.""Jamey was best known for his devotion to his family and friends but was also former President of Houston Texans, retiring in 2021," she wrote."Our family is requesting privacy and will not be responding to media inquiries. The details of a celebration of Jamey's life will be announced at a later date. If you or a loved are thinking about suicide, or experiencing a health crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline right now at 1-800-273-8255," the statement continued.in July, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline launched a new three-digit number, 988. You can also send text messages to this three-digit number.Rootes was a fixture in Houston sports as the president of the Texans for two decades. Rootes ran the business operations as the right hand man for team founder,  » Read More

After reports revealed this month that Facebook handed over to law enforcement messages between a Nebraska teenager and her mother about the teen’s pregnancy loss, the company released a statement claiming ignorance about the nature of the investigation. “The warrants did not mention abortion at all. Court documents indicate that police were at that time investigating the alleged illegal burning and burial of a stillborn infant,” the company wrote. But that argument would set a disturbing precedent. Tech companies cannot be allowed to hide behind the omission of the word “abortion” to abandon their responsibility to protect people’s sensitive data.With federal protections for reproductive rights rolled back, data privacy protections are more important than ever for healthcare and abortion access. Facebook and other tech companies routinely cooperate with police demands for information they collect, including messages and keyword searches. For the Nebraska case, Facebook claimed it wasn’t aware that the police were seeking information relevant to a person’s abortion. That raises the question: What would Facebook have done if the warrant included the word “abortion”?  » Read More

Meta-owned Facebook is struggling to maintain its position among the Top 10 apps on the US App Store this year. The demand for Facebook is diminishing as younger consumers are shifting to newer social networking experiences like TikTok and BeReal. Last year, Facebook only fell out of the Top 10 free iPhone apps in the US seven times. In 2022, the drop in its position in the Top 10 free iPhone apps has already soared to 97 — an indication that Facebook may be losing ground as new apps push their way into the App Store’s top rankings. For a more direct comparison, Facebook’s app fell out of the App Store’s Top 10 apps six times in the first half of 2021. In the first half of 2022, however, Facebook’s app has dropped out of this grouping a total of 59 times, according to a news report in TechCrunch — based on the analysis by app intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Facebook once stayed out of the Top 10 for as long as 37 consecutive days in 2022,  » Read More

An analysis of iPhone App Store data done by TechCrunch shows that Facebook app has lost traction in the App Store’s Top Charts. According to the report, the Meta-owned Facebook is struggling to maintain its position among the Top 10 apps on the US App Store this year. It says that younger consumers are now shifting to newer social networking experiences like TikTok and now BeReal. As per the report, Facebook only fell out of the Top 10 free iPhone apps in the US seven times in 2021. But in 2022, that figure has already soared to 97 — an indication that Facebook may be losing ground as new apps push their way into the App Store’s top rankings. For a more direct comparison, Facebook’s app fell out of the App Store’s Top 10 apps just six times during the first half of 2021. In the first half of 2022, however, it has dropped out of this grouping a total of 59 times, per data provided to TechCrunch by app intelligence firm Sensor Tower.  » Read More

Ciara O'Rourke, PolitiFact.com  |  Austin American-StatesmanViral Facebook post: Photos show "an IRS agent training class."PolitiFact's ruling: FalseHere's why: You may have seen the online images showing people wearing protective vests and wielding fake handguns."IRS CID POLICE" say the white letters emblazoned across their vests."These are actual photos of an IRS agent training class," one Facebook post said of four such photos. Another post showed a video clip of some of the same people in the photos, describing it as a "new video and photos of agents training." These kinds of claims were further fueled by U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who tweeted the images and said: "These are not auditions for the next Police Academy sequel. This is an actual IRS recruiting program."These posts are being shared online amid misinformation about IRS plans to increase its staffing and enforcement. And they were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.  » Read More

Outgoing Meta chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg married former NBC News producer Tom Bernthal on Saturday. The pair, who got engaged in February 2020 after starting their relationship the year prior, appropriately took to Instagram to announce the news. They each posted the same photo of themselves holding hands in the woods, with Sandberg succinctly captioning it, “MARRIED,” adding a string of heart emojis. Bernthal, the founder of consulting firm Kelton Global and brother to actor Jon Bernthal, included a lengthier caption in his post. His message alluded to the 2015 death of Sandberg’s previous husband, former Yahoo executive Dave Sandberg, in addition to his own divorce. “After both experiencing loss, @sherylsandberg and I weren’t sure we would ever find love again,” Bernthal wrote. “Over the last three years, we’ve merged our lives and blended our families. Our wedding today was a dream come true.” The couple told People that the wedding took place in Wyoming and that Dave’s brother Rob Goldberg,  » Read More

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-vaxxers have been, to a large degree, far-right MAGA Republicans and evangelical Christian fundamentalists — although former President Donald Trump himself has encouraged vaccination, and former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has tried to put a pro-MAGA spin on the Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines by describing them as "the Trump vaccine." Democrats have, for the most part, joined President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden's top White House medical adviser, in encouraging vaccination for COVID-19. But one well-known Democrat who is known for his anti-vaxxer views is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who now finds himself at odds with Facebook and Instagram for spreading what those social media outlets consider misinformation. Kennedy leads the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), a nonprofit anti-vaxxer group. And on Thursday, August 18, its accounts were removed for both Facebook and Instagram, according to the New York Times. Those platforms are owned by their Silicon Valley-based parent company Meta. Sheera Frenkel, a technology reporter for the New York Times and co-author of the 2021 book "An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination," explains,  » Read More