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 considerations right into a actuality: Everyone seems to be saying the identical precise factor over and over.
In a bug affecting some Threads customers on desktop and cell, it seems that one person’s put up will get repeated over and over, trying as if each person in your feed is saying the identical factor.
“Siri, unsubscribe me from 2025,” one Threads person wrote, per a screenshot from social media skilled Alexa Heinrich. However then, everybody else on Heinrich’s feed seemed to be echoing the identical cheugy joke, all begging for Apple’s beleaguered AI to save lots of them from a information cycle of fixed horrors.
Picture Credit:Alexa Heinrich on Threads
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 info, authorized considerations, and extra.
Whereas it’s not but clear what brought on the bug, Meta Communications Director Andy Stone responded to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong’s put up concerning the concern.
“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.
