The problem was discovered by the public organization “Media Detector”, which covers media and journalism-related events and phenomena. Facebook has yet to comment on the situation. The reasons for the sharp decrease in the number of subscribers are still unknown.

what is known

According to the source, the first complaints about the loss of subscribers appeared on the night of October 12. Regardless of the number of followers before that, the bloggers have up to 10,000 followers left. This number was different on each page.

• For example, Mark Zuckerberg, who had 119 million followers on his page, had 9,993 readers left.
• HUBZ Inform’s editor-in-chief, Ihor Tykholaz, had 25,000 subscribers, with 9,971 subscribers remaining.
• Oleksiy Arestovich’s page – 880 thousand and 9993, respectively.

Zuckerberg decided to reset all bloggers’ follower counts—many’s numbers dropped to almost the same number of 9,970 readers overnight. Many of my acquaintances, journalists and friends have written about it. Who 40, who 50, 125 thousand or 25 thousand like me – everyone lost equally,
– Facebook writes Ihor Tykholaz.

It is unclear why this happens, but It is clear that we are talking about a malfunction in the Facebook system, and it’s not about targeted deletion of accounts – like bots. This is implied by the same number of remaining subscriptions and the fact that the wrong number is only displayed on the home page. When you go to the “Readers” section, the system displays the correct number.