Facebook fixes issue that caused people's feed to be inundated with celebrity fan posts
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Meta Platforms' (NASDAQ:META) Facebook said on Wednesday that it had fixed the issue that caused people's news feeds to be inundated with celebrity fan posts.
A Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch that the error was the result of a configuration change and âcaused some people to have trouble with their Facebook Feed.â

Early on Wednesday morning, some Facebook users around the globe were bombarded with odd posts and activity trackers from celebrities' pages instead of the usual news posts, photos and status updates.
Meta Platforms (META) Facebook also spiked on DownDetector early on Wednesday, a website that measures internet service outages. At this point, it's not known if the two issues are related.
Meta Platforms (META) shares rose nearly 0.5% to $161.83 in premarket trading.
On Tuesday, it was reported that Meta Platforms (META) found out through Twitter that its $400M deal to acquire VR app maker Within Unlimited had raised a Federal Trade Commission challenge, before it received a legal complaint.