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Facebook Breaks Major Websites With Redirection Bug

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-we're-tripping-on-virtual-power-cords dept.

johnsnails writes "Some of the biggest news sites in the world disappeared yesterday when Facebook took over the internet with a redirection bug. Visitors to sites such as The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, the Gawker network, NBC News and News.com.au were immediately transferred to a Facebook error page upon loading their intended site. It was fixed quickly, and Facebook provided this statement: 'For a short period of time, there was a bug that redirected people logging in with Facebook from third party sites to Facebook.com. The issue was quickly resolved, and Login with Facebook is now working as usual.'"

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  1. Re:so... by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, just because all of my forum stuff comes from Disqus, my word of mouth spreading comes from twitter, facebook, and google plus integrations, and my content comes from automatic AP feeds doesn't mean I don't provide anything myself! I . . . . uh . . . .

  2. facebook by hackula · · Score: 4, Funny

    The first successful test. Soon every site will redirect to facebook, then... the world!

  3. Re:Good. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They prefer to be called facebook serfs

  4. Re:so... by saveferrousoxide · · Score: 5, Funny

    I deal with the goddamn customers!

  5. Re:Congrats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well if drug kingpins and terrorists use them, they must be a pretty good bank.