In the Headlines | A (new) Facebook bug has unlocked nearly a million blocked contacts

The bug already dates from early June, but Facebook did not make it public until the beginning of the week: the social network acknowledged "a technical problem" … which allowed blocked contacts to enter again in contact with the people who had blocked them. Eight hundred thousand accounts are concerned, worldwide, according to Le Monde.

The blocking of new workforce

Facebook has (once again) apologized for having, between May 29 and June 5, unlocked In principle, the blocking of a person by a user instantly removes it from his friends list, and makes it "invisible": it can no longer see any content or interact with the person blocker, and is not warned that it is blocked.

This is a very effective tool in the fight against online harbadment.

"We know that the possibility of blocking someone is important, "admits Facebook. It states that 83% of affected users had only one person temporarily unlocked. "

Serial Problems

If you have been concerned, Facebook will contact you in the next few days. block again the person (s) concerned (s): the blocking has been implemented automatically

This new bug is added to many precedents in recent months.June 7, Facebook had invited – by error – 14 million people to publish in "public" mode by default.