Female Facebook User Accounts Accidentally Disabled, Being Restored
This afternoon we received numerous inquiries from users who had their accounts automatically disabled. The bug happened to occur to female user accounts and reportedly thousands of them.
This afternoon we received numerous inquiries from users who had their accounts automatically disabled. The bug happened to occur to female user accounts and reportedly thousands of them.
After receiving the inquiries, we reached out to Facebook who provided us with the following statement:
Earlier today, we discovered a bug in a system designed to detect and disable likely fake accounts. The bug, which was live for a short period of time, caused a very small percentage of Facebook accounts to be mistakenly disabled.
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