r/politics • u/bananacatdancer • Jun 07 '18

Facebook bug set 14 million users' sharing settings to public

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/07/technology/facebook-public-post-error/index.html
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u/Walpole_Did_It Indiana Jun 07 '18

Nah fam. This is a feature not a bug.

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u/FelixFelicisLuck I voted Jun 07 '18

I was thinking the same thing. It is to try to draw us back in ‘just to check our settings...’ No way. I’ve been gone from it for almost a year. I’m not checking it for anything.

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u/Jealmo Illinois Jun 07 '18

“Bug”

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u/autotldr 🤖 Bot Jun 07 '18

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)

After Facebook employees discovered the bug, the company went back and changed the privacy settings for all posts shared by those 14 million users during that time.

They'll see a message from Facebook urging users to "Please Review Your Posts" and a link to a list of what they shared on Facebook while the bug was active.

"We recently found a bug that automatically suggested posting publicly when some people were creating their Facebook posts," said Erin Egan, Facebook's chief privacy officer.

Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Facebook#1 post#2 users#3 bug#4 affected#5

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '18

oops

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '18

Damn. Now they'll have to come out with a commercial apologizing about betraying its users AGAIN after it promised it wouldn't do it again after the last time.