Facebook says spam filter mayhem not related to coronavirus
Social network restores posts that were wrongly removed as system went haywire
A Facebook spam filter that went haywire on Tuesday evening and began removing many perfectly acceptable posts was unrelated to coronavirus, the company has said.
All the removed posts had been restored, a Facebook executive said, attributing the removals to an automated system. Despite the fact that many of the removed posts were related to the coronavirus, the company says that was simply a coincidence caused by the fact that so many posts on the site are related to the pandemic.