Facebook breaks DOWN, shows random spam posts from celebrities

Facebook has reportedly gone down for thousands of users across the world with a weird bug – it is showing random spam posts from celebrities.

By: HT TECH
| Updated on: Aug 24 2022, 13:52 IST

Facebook is reportedly showing a weird timeline full of spam posts from celebrity accounts. (REUTERS)

Facebook has gone down for thousands of users across the world and it is causing strange issues. Based on several user complaints on social media as well as Downdetector, it seems the issue is widespread. Several users have complained of Facebook showing weird spam posts from popular celebrity accounts around the world. The issue started at around 11:00 AM this morning and by 1 PM, it peaked. Facebook is yet to release any statement regarding the weird bug.

The issue was first reported internationally and eventually several users from India complained of the same. However, we accessed our Facebook accounts after the reports came up and we faced no such bugs or issues. Our personal Facebook timelines have been working normally. That said, many users have taken to Twitter and other social media to complain of the weird posts visible on Facebook.

Facebook goes DOWN again with weird bug

It doesn't appear to be an outage like before but the Facebook experience has been broken for several users across the world. Several users have shared screenshots of their timelines full of spam posts and memes from celebrity accounts, asking the followers to share them further. Obviously, this has led to scammers taking advantage of the situation and come up with dodgy links to dupe users of money and cryptocurrency.

And with Facebook down, it is on Twitter to allow users to discuss all the issues and even share some of the funniest memes. Have a look at some of the most hilarious memes related to this widespread Facebook bug across the world.

Me after completely freaking out and spending 30 min changing my password and unfollowing artists thinking my account got hacked then realizing Facebook itself was hacked #facebookhacked pic.twitter.com/ud8h9hIB9L
— Yuliana (@Yuli_DeLeon23) August 24, 2022

Who else came to #Twitter to figure out what is happening to Facebook?
All I can see at the moment is random people from all over the world sharing photos to celebrities' pages.#Facebook #facebookhacked #facebookdown #bug #MarkZuckerberg pic.twitter.com/IxyH4vmi6H
— Abdullah Ashraf (@Abdull_GhaZi) August 24, 2022

Is anybody else's Facebook news feed acting weird? 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. instead of my friends' stuff. @facebook
— Daredevil Mike (@Daredevilscurse) August 24, 2022