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 again and again.
In a bug affecting some Threads customers on desktop and cell, it seems that one consumer’s submit will get repeated again and again, 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 skilled Alexa Heinrich. However then, everybody else on Henrich’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.
Picture Credit:Alexa Heinrich on Threads
Meta’s apps have dedicated a few fake pas these days, 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 triggered the bug, Meta Communications Director Andy Stone responded to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong’s submit concerning the situation.
“Whoops, effectively that clearly shouldn’t have occurred! We’re engaged on getting it mounted now,” Stone stated.
“Whoops, effectively that clearly shouldn’t have occurred! We’re engaged on getting it mounted now,” Wong replied.
