Several sites across the web could not be reached by some visitors on Thursday afternoon, apparently because of a problem with Facebook widgets embedded in the sites. Several sites — including Business Insider, Huffington Post and Salon — were reportedly affected, redirecting visitors to a Facebook error page.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the problem has apparently been fixed. The problem was first reported by Marketing Land.
When trying to visit a page that used Facebook Connect or Like widgets, users were redirected to a page saying simply “An error occurred. Please try again later.” When they clicked the “Okay” button, they were taken to an error page. If they hit back, they would get to the page they were trying to visit momentarily before being automatically forwarded to the error page again.
Facebook provides code to embed widgets that display information such as which of your friends like a site’s Facebook page, or which articles have recently been “liked” by a friend. These widgets execute JavaScript code in the user’s web browser that originates at Facebook, not the site that the user is trying to view. The problem only seems to affect users who are not logged into Facebook.
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Update: Facebook has now said: “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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