Facebook explains why news feed turned to chaos: ‘configuration change’

Issue meant comments on celebrities’ pages flooded people’s news feeds

Facebook says it has fixed a problem that suddenly turned users’ news feeds into chaos – and attempted to explain why it happened.

On Wednesday morning, users found their news feed flooded with comments on celebrities’ pages, rather than the usual posts from friends or other pages they were interested in.

All a person would have to do to have a post pushed to everybody who follows Lady Gaga’s page, for instance, was to comment on that page.