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Anymouse šŸŒ¹šŸ”šŸ˜·6/08/2018 12:29:42 am PDT

Iā€™m still convinced I made the right decision by never dealing with Facebook. Facebookerati might want to check to see if Facebook really fixed their privacy settings after this bug exposed all new posts from roughly 14 million people over a period of two weeks.

Your Private Facebook Posts May Have Been Public For Days (Huffington Post)

Facebook has had another privacy mishap, this time announcing a recent bug that may have caused up to 14 million usersā€™ new posts to appear publicly even if they had previously chosen a more private default setting such as ā€œfriends only.ā€

The company said Thursday that over several days last month ā€• from May 18 to May 27 ā€• a bug had caused affected usersā€™ new posts to automatically be set to ā€œpublic,ā€ overriding their usual privacy settings, which may have restricted who could view their posts and photos.

The company said it had fixed the bug, changing the settings of all of new posts published over that period back to the affected usersā€™ previous settings. The bug didnā€™t affect older posts, the company said.

ā€œWeā€™d like to apologize for this mistake,ā€ Facebookā€™s chief privacy officer, Erin Egan, said in a statement.

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They have begun notifying users who may have been affected so they can review their privacy settings.