Apparent Facebook bug shows users ads in different languages

Many Facebook users are reporting that they’re seeing ads in different languages than the one they’ve set their accounts to.

This seems to be a bug that has been around for most of December, if not longer. New Zealand reader Sam Stone was first let us know about the problem, providing the screenshot to the right.

Occasionally users will see an ad in a different language if an advertiser has not selected proper targeting parameters, but this seems more widespread, with users are saying that the majority of their ads are in the wrong language, not just one out of many.

A question about the issue in Facebook’s community forum posted about a week ago has 20 followers and 34 comments.

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