02-07-2018 22:11 via thedrum.com

Facebook says 800,000 users were affected by a bug that unblocked people

Facebook has fixed a bug that it says temporarily unblocked people who had been blocked by users on the platform.
According to Facebook, the bug - which impacted 800,000 users - was active between May 29 and June 5. 
In a blog post written by Facebook’s chief privacy offer Erin Egan, she says the temporarily unblocked users didn’t have full access to the profiles of users they’d been blocked by, but could still view content that they had previously been barred from. For in
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