Meta, Facebook's parent company, apologized and said the glitch was corrected. On May 12, 2023, claims began to spread across social media platforms that Facebook would send someone a friend request ...

Meta said it's now fixed a Facebook bug that was sending automatic friend requests when users visited profiles through the app — which was bad news for anyone covertly visiting others’ profiles on the ...

Are you as fed up as I am with the seemingly endless number of scams flooding Facebook? You know, the ones I’m talking about — the messages that make you stop and think, "Is this for real?" Whether ...

Update #2, 12 May, 2023 (01:44 PM ET): Meta has responded with the following official statement: ““We fixed a bug related to a recent app update that caused some Facebook friend requests to be sent ...

Lurkers beware — a Facebook glitch sent automatic friend requests to profiles that users clicked on. The glitch occurred as a result of an update to the Facebook app. While the bug was fixed, people ...