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Death by Facebook
« on: Saturday, 12 November, 2016 @ 13:23:18 »
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Mark Zuckerberg is dead – Facebook confirmed
Social networking giant so very sorry

A day after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared it's a "crazy idea" that fake Facebook news may have influenced the election – never mind the persuasive power of its ads – the web giant took to issuing fake death notices.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/11/facebook_zuckerberg_dead/


It's not just Zuckerberg who Facebook have killed off:

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Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'

An unusual bug on Facebook briefly labelled many people as dead.

The error on Friday caused the social network to show a memorial banner on user profiles for people who were still alive.

Users posted status updates to reassure friends and family they were not dead, despite Facebook's message.

"This was a terrible error that we have now fixed," a Facebook spokesperson said. "We are very sorry that this happened."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37957593