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From a Gizmodo report: A Facebook Bug Pretty Much Took Down the Entire Internet

How the Like button can bring other sites down?

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its in JavaScript it can replace whole content of page and "Because the bug would wrongly redirect those sites to Facebook which would result in an error page"

to bring site down just keep button loading it happen when INTERNET is slow like 12KBs(hmm just like 12) or load some nasty code :*

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