Facebook seems to be malfunctioning with many users reporting about the loss of content from their timelines. According to reports, a new bug is causing array of troubles for users to post anything with links. Posts with links are disappearing from their timeline and new links are being blocked from being posted.
A fair number of posts have disappeared from Facebook, although many have re-appeared on regular intervals. Also, users who have been attempting to post with links have been prompted with obscure security warnings. More than the users, advertisers and media have shown their discontent with such behavior (mainly because they have invested in Facebook). The bug is only restricting posts that contain links leading to outside sources.
As per the reports, the problem surfaced last night with some working issues in Facebook’s image-scraping system, which is responsible for taking pictures from the links posted. The issue was then reported in the Facebook’s developer forums and the operations team ensured a fix, but the problem seemed to have spiked up, as in order to fix one thing, the whole system has been affected.
Many users who have been facing the bug have assumed it as a step towards selective censorship by the social media giant, specifically the posts encompassing around Baltimore riots. However, the more viable reason is system-failure, which seems to be under-process of getting fixed by the website. In the latest development, Facebook told Mashable that it is presently “trying to identify the bug.”
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