Facebook is notifying 14 million people about a bug that set posts to be shared publicly
Facebook said today that it was informing 14 million users that they may have accidentally shared posts publicly because of a bug.
The company disclosed today that the bug, which was live last month, switched the “suggested” sharing setting on some users’ posts to the “public” setting. Facebook generally sets its suggestions for sharing based on users’ settings and previous activity. But in this case, a software error caused the default setting to be set to public, regardless of whether users had previously chosen to share with a smaller group of people.
Facebook said the bug was active between May 18th and May 27th, and although the company was able to stop the error on May 22nd, they could not revert posts to previous settings until...