Update: Facebook seems to have already fixed the bug that caused the app’s bio to be filled with celebrity posts. Crazy Facebook Wednesday is over.
Did you open Facebook today? If you haven’t already, you’ll be in for a surprise when you do: instead of seeing your friends’ posts and pages you follow, a series of posts from strangers spamming public pages.
Someone on Meta pressed the wrong button, and as a result, the Facebook app turned into a meaningless mess of foreign posts, memes, and spam. Lots and lots of spam. Fortunately, There is a way to get back to normal, albeit temporarily..
Crazy Facebook Wednesday
Facebook’s algorithm shows us a bit of what it wants, but what’s going on with Facebook today is a bit too much. Instead of seeing posts from your friends and Pages you follow, the app Prioritizes third-party posts on public pages. In practice, this turned Facebook into a mix of memes, spam, and lots of noise.
Facebook went crazy this Wednesday and what was normally a relatively boring practice has turned into a spree of meaningless posts on Facebook that make it impossible to keep track of what you normally check. There seems to be a bug in the Facebook algorithm as it affects both the app and the web version.
This post selection frenzy can be seen in standard timeline viewBut the good news is that on pages with millions of users, like Taylor Swift’s page, you can tame your Facebook to see posts as before, without including everything random people post.
There are two possible responses to this situation. There will be those who laugh at Facebook’s nonsense, and there will be those who want to leave Facebook as it is. You can bring your sanity back to Facebook by clicking the news buttonin the top bar of the app (if you don’t see this button, you’ll find the news section ☰ in the sidebar).
The Facebook news section shows the latest posts from the pages and people you follow. in chronological order And with the added bonus, you won’t see all the spam Facebook has become today.
For now, this will act as a patch Until someone in Meta hits the right button again to get Facebook back to normal. In the meantime, enjoy the craziness or be patient with it, depending on where you stand.