Facebook offers curt apology over blocking tool bug

In another blow to Facebook’s privacy and safety cred, the organization
announced a bug had unblocked thousands of accounts.
Facebook broke the news
in a blog post, which read in part:Starting today we are notifying over 800,000 users about a bug in Facebook
and Messenger that unblocked some people they had blocked. The bug was
active between May 29 and June 5—and while someone who was unblocked could
not see content shared with friends, they could have seen things posted to
a wider