{"id":263719,"date":"2018-06-08T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T06:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=263719"},"modified":"2018-06-08T08:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T06:58:46","slug":"facebook-bug-made-posts-public-by-default-for-14-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/it-services\/263719-facebook-bug-made-posts-public-by-default-for-14-million-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook bug made posts public by default for 14 million users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bug in Facebook may have caused 14 million users to unknowingly post publicly, even if they specified restrictive defaults in their settings, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2018\/6\/7\/17438928\/facebook-bug-privacy-public-settings-14-million-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recode reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The bug was active\u00a0from 18-22 May 2018 and updated the default audience for posts from certain users to public without any warning.<\/p>\n<p>It took Facebook until 27 May to discover and fix the issue, and switch posts back to their default audience.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said the users who were affected will be notified in their Newsfeed.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the bug did not impact old posts, and a user could set their audience if they spotted that the default had changed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019d like to apologise for this mistake,&#8221; said Facebook.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/263509-facebook-under-fire-from-us-lawmakers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook under fire from US lawmakers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bug in Facebook may have caused the public posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317],"tags":[20473,161],"class_list":["post-263719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-data-privacy","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263725,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263719\/revisions\/263725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}