Facebook takes over Internet with redirection bug

Posted on: 9:06 am, February 8, 2013, by Web Staff, updated on: 09:51am, February 8, 2013

For about 15 minutes on Thursday, Facebook took over the internet.

For a short period of time, a bug within Facebook’s ubiquitous embedded widgets redirected millions of visitors on other websites back to Facebook. From about 8 p.m. ET to 8:15 p.m. ET, some of the largest websites in the world including CNN and The Washington Post were inaccessible.

The bug only affected those logged into Facebook. Non-Facebook users and those not actively logged into Facebook were not affected.

In an e-mail to NBC, Facebook said:

“For a short period of time, there was a bug that redirected people from third party sites with Facebook Login to Facebook.com. The issue was quickly resolved.”

Wow a Facebook bug has taken down CNN, the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Slate, BuzzFeed, Gawker and Kickstarter... buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/face…
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Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) February 08, 2013

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