We’ve heard all of it — X is popping right into a right-wing echo chamber, Bluesky is a liberal bubble, and so forth. However a glitch on Threads has turned these issues right into a actuality: Everyone seems to be saying the identical actual factor over and over.
In a bug affecting some Threads customers on desktop and cellular, it seems that one consumer’s publish will get repeated over and over, wanting as if each consumer in your feed is saying the identical factor.
“Siri, unsubscribe me from 2025,” one Threads consumer wrote, per a screenshot from social media knowledgeable Alexa Heinrich. However then, everybody else on Heinrich’s feed gave the impression to be echoing the identical cheugy joke, all begging for Apple’s beleaguered AI to avoid wasting them from a information cycle of fixed horrors.
Meta’s apps have dedicated a few fake pas recently, however this Threads error leans extra foolish than dangerous. In the meantime, some customers have been unknowingly posting their conversations with Meta AI onto a public feed final week, revealing private details about medical points, contact data, authorized issues, and extra.
Whereas it’s not but clear what induced the bug, Meta Communications Director Andy Stone responded to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong’s publish in regards to the difficulty.
“Whoops, nicely that clearly shouldn’t have occurred! We’re engaged on getting it fastened now,” Stone stated.
“Whoops, nicely that clearly shouldn’t have occurred! We’re engaged on getting it fastened now,” Wong replied.
