Due to a bug in Facebook (the owner of Meta is recognized and banned in Russia as an extremist), social network users began receiving automatic friend requests from people who viewed their profiles, including colleagues and strangers. It has been reported Daily Monster.
It was noted that the problem appeared on 19 May. Users started noticing that a friend request was automatically sent after viewing accounts without their knowledge. So it turns out that the person viewed the profile.
Meta (considered extremist and banned in Russia) confirmed the existence of the bug. According to a company representative, the failure occurred as a result of an update to the Facebook app. “This resulted in Facebook friend requests being sent in error. We canceled all requests sent due to this error,” the speaker explained.
The reactions of people online ranged from embarrassment to curiosity about whether they could be recipients of such a friend request. “I think we’ll find out who our followers are today,” one Reddit forum user said of the glitch.
In August 2022, the last major outage occurred across the entire Facebook network – a “configuration change” bombarding Facebook users’ posts with posts from celebrities.
Thousands of users from UK and USA in February 2023 complained For malfunctions of Facebook Messenger messenger.