Social media was recently flooded with consumers griping about Facebook sending requests on their behalf to random users. People shared screenshots and videos of the issue on Twitter, where it was widely reported as a bug. It turned out to be an issue on Meta's end, and the firm took proper note of it. In a statement, Meta expressed regret for any inconvenience the bug may have caused consumers while also confirming that it had been fixed.
Several Twitter users expressed their displeasure on Friday over Facebook sending requests to the profiles they had visited. Some individuals expressed concern over privacy, while others made jokes about it. According to reports, users from Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
The firm quickly acknowledged the error and apologized, noting that it had been remedied. A spokeswoman for Meta informed The Daily Beast that the tech giant had "fixed a bug related to a recent app update that caused some Facebook friend requests to be sent inadvertently." "We've stopped this from happening, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."
Scammers frequently utilize Facebook to target innocent users for their nefarious goals. A fraud that involved using Facebook sites to transmit malware to victims' PCs was detected in March of this year.
Fake ChatGPT sites on Facebook were being used to spread malware to unaware users, according to a study by CloudSEK. Scammers took control of a Facebook page or account and attempted to make it appear to be the official ChatGPT page. To do this, they altered the username to something like "ChatGPT OpenAI" and changed the profile image to the ChatGPT logo. Then, they post links to the purported "latest version of ChatGPT, GPT-V4" via Facebook advertising.
