Facebook pages for AMC's Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad were seemingly hijacked briefly

If you were scrolling through your Facebook feed a few hours ago and saw Walter White or Saul Goodman posting about “tragic losses” or “stimulus checks,” you weren’t hallucinating from the blue meth. It appears that the official Facebook pages for several hit AMC shows, including Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad, were compromised in a bizarre spam campaign that left fans confused and amused.

The posts, which popped up almost simultaneously across the verified accounts, deviated wildly from the usual promotional content or nostalgia clips. Instead, followers were treated to bright red text cards making dubious claims.

One post ominously stated, “Our thoughts and prayers go out to Donald Trump and his family for their tragic loss,” while another on The Walking Dead page breathlessly asked if a “$2,000 Trump promise” would arrive before Christmas.

What made the situation even stranger — and honestly, a bit funny — was the lack of effort behind the hack. As eagle-eyed users on Reddit pointed out, the scammers seemed to be using a bot that clumsily copy-pasted text. In one instance on the Better Call Saul page, the text “…See more” was actually typed out in the post body, rather than being the clickable platform link it was meant to mimic.

Digging deeper into the chaos, the comment sections of these posts revealed the true, albeit confusing, motive. The accounts were replying to their own spam with links to a website called yemek-tarifleri.com — a Turkish food recipe site. It seems the great Heisenberg wasn’t cooking crystal, but rather driving traffic to a recipe for potential kebabs or baklava.

Discussions on Reddit threads like r/facebook, r/thewalkingdead, and r/betterCallSaul were quick to light up with screenshots and theories. User “LordKerzelot” on the Better Call Saul subreddit noted the hilarity of the Turkish link, while others like “skweekz_” mentioned that this wasn’t an isolated incident, claiming that rock bands like Breaking Benjamin and Seether had suffered similar fates just a day prior.

In my own checks of the pages today, I wasn’t able to find these posts on the accounts. It looks like the social media teams at AMC have regained control and scrubbed the “tragic loss” updates from the timeline. While it’s alarming to see major verified pages hijacked so easily, probably via a phishing scam targeting an admin, the stakes here seemed fortunately low.

The consensus among fans was that this was a missed opportunity. As user “willrobster16” joked, if you’re going to hack the Walking Dead page, why not try to “sell” Negan’s bat? Instead, we got weird political clickbait and Turkish recipes.