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Facebook Bug Made Up to 14 Million Users' Posts Public for Days

Facebook Bug Made Up to 14 Million Users' Posts Public for Days

Facebook Bug Made Up to 14 Million Users' Posts Public for Days

Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer

June 8, 20185m 2s

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Facebook has found itself the subject of another privacy scandal, this time involving privacy settings. A glitch caused up to 14 million Facebook users to have their new posts inadvertently set to public, the company revealed Thursday. The bug, which reportedly occurred while Facebook was testing a new feature, went live on May 18.

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