2023-05-15 13:02:40
Facebook was hit by a bug to say the least surprising. The platform sent “automatic friend requests” to profiles users visited. Some users have complained about the problem on the social networksreports phoneandroid.
According to reports, users noticed that strangers had accepted friend requests when they had never sent them. Some Internet users thought they had made a bad manipulation, others imagined that they had been pirated. More Meta hastened to reassure everyone.
A bug contained in the last update
The group of Mark Zuckerberg sent a press release on Friday to several media. “We’ve fixed a bug related to a recent app update that caused some Facebook friend requests to be incorrectly sent,” a company spokesperson wrote. And to add: “We prevented this from happening and we apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused. »
There were indeed some “inconveniences”. Imagine the case of a user who secretly visits the account of one or more people he does not like and who receives in return an acceptance of this unexpected friend request. According to our colleagues, Europe would not have been very affected by this bug.
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