A MYSTERIOUS bug has left Facebook fans a little confused this morning.
The latest outage to hit the Meta-owned platform causes the site to only show posts on celebrity pages and nothing else.
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Is Facebook down?
People are currently able to log into their Facebook accounts but they’ll be disappointed to see very little on there.
Posts from friends and groups are not showing at all.
Weirdly, the only thing that is appearing on the News Feed are posts to celebrity pages.
This is causing all sorts of odd things that the general public have posted on their favourite celebrity pages to come up, which you usually wouldn’t see so prominently.
At around 7am Downdetector tweeted: “User reports indicate Facebook is having problems since 2:00 AM EDT.”
Facebook owner Meta released a statement, saying: “We’re aware that some people are having trouble with their Facebook Feed.
“We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologise for any inconvenience.”
For the most part, people have jumped on the fault to spam celebrity pages.
Though many are making fun of the outage with memes.
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How can I check if Facebook is not working?
Those who may be experiencing difficulties with Facebook can check another social media app such as Twitter for reports.
If you don’t have a Twitter account Down Detector will tell users when the apps are down or experiencing difficulties.
If it appears the problem may not be widespread, try checking the internet connection on your device or exiting the app before logging back in.
When have there been Facebook outages before?
There have been other reported Facebook outages in the past including:
- June 2014: Facebook was down for about a half-hour – its longest outage in four years.
- January 2015: Facebook was down for about 40 minutes affecting users worldwide.
- March 2019: A massive Facebook outage affected users worldwide. Facebook was down for about 14 hours, which is believed to be the biggest interruption any social network has ever experienced.
- January 2021: Facebook experienced a bug that logged most users out of their mobile app.
- March 2021: Over 60,000 users said they experienced problems with Facebook, while 38,000 Instagram users also reported issues.
- September 2021: Facebook users are locked out of their accounts.
- October 2021: Facebook was one of a dozen apps that were experiencing outages
- November 2021: Facebook malware affecting user logins and sharing.
- April 2022: Facebook log in problems, reportedly due to maintenance.
- April 2022: Issue for people trying to login using the gateway.
