Has Facebook been hacked? Glitch floods feeds with random posts | Daily Mail Online

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.  Meta, Facebook’s parent company, confirmed the problem has now been resolved and said a ‘configuration change’ had been the root of the issue Facebook suffered a bizarre glitch today that flooded user feeds with posts from strangers…
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