Funny as it sounds, the technology has its odd ways when it comes to glitches, as it happened with Facebook today. Facebook declared everyone dead including the founder Mark Zuckerberg himself. Rest In Peace!?
Facebook implemented its memorial feature in 2015 to allow families to honor and remember their loved ones.
The glitch first discovered by the Business Insider’s staff. They logged into their accounts only to find out that their beloved Facebook account was turned into a ‘memorialized account’ due to alleged death.
One of the Marks Zuckerberg profile’s post reads, “We hope people who love Mark will find comfort in the things others share to remember and celebrate his life.”
The glitch got a reaction of confusion, humor, and concern on social media sites.
“For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialized profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts,” Facebook said in a statement. “This was a terrible error that we have now fixed. We are very sorry that this happened, and we worked as quickly as possible to fix it.”
Facebook’s glitch comes in when the users are raising serious concerns about the social network as public debate has churned over Facebook’s system for delivering news and content to its billions of users, especially false information and fake news on the app.
Attending the on-stage, Techonomy conference in California, the night before ‘being memorialized’ on Facebook. Zuckerberg defended the role of Facebook content circulating system, calling the idea of affecting election as ‘crazy.’ He said Facebook’s algorithm doesn’t support ideological echo chambers.
Zuckerberg said ‘the biggest’ information filter that the company found is that users don’t engage with news or content that contradicts their own views.
He said, “Presenting people with diverse information is important, and I hope we can make progress,” “We haven’t gotten people to engage with it in higher proportions.”
On Friday, Facebook also disclosed that it would change its advertising policies to ban ‘ethnic affinity’ as a targeting tool in employment, housing, and credit-related ad campaigns.
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