Content identified as misleading or problematic was mistakenly prioritised in users’ Facebook feeds recently, thanks to a software bug that took six months to fix, according to tech site The Verge. Facebook disputed the report, saying that it “vastly overstated what this bug was because ultimately it had no meaningful, long-term impact on problematic content” Joe Osborne, a spokesman for parent company Meta, said. “Unable to find the root cause, the engineers watched the surge subside a few weeks later and then flare up repeatedly until the ranking issue was fixed on March 11,” The Verge reported. Read More…