Facebook Bug Changes 14 Million Privacy Settings
Return To ArticleFacebook admits as many as 14 millions of its users who thought they’re sharing content privately with only friends may have inadvertently shared their posts with everyone because of a software bug.
Facebook said in front of Congress in March over the Cambridge Analytica scandal that “every piece of content that you share on Facebook you own, you have complete control over who sees it and how you share it,” but the news came out to be another failure of the company to keep the information of millions of users private.
Facebook typically allows users to select the audiences who can see their posts, and that privacy setting remains the default until the user itself manually updates it.
However, the social media giant revealed Thursday that it recently found a bug that automatically updated the default audience setting for 14 million users’ Facebook posts to “Public,” even if they had intended to share them just with their friends, or a smaller group of people only.
