Nov 19, 2010

Facebook fixes bug disabling female user accounts

http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/16/facebook-fixes-bug-disabling-female-user-accounts/
Thousands of female Facebook users started reporting on Twitter this morning that their Facebook accounts had been inexplicably disabled. Facebook confirmed the incident a little later, stating that the cause was a bug in the system and that it had been fixed, with affected user accounts being reactivated.
Users first started noticing the bug sometime around midnight (PST), using Twitter as a platform to share their annoyance. My facebook account was disabled for reasons unclear. Liking a story on CNN? Sharing a link about Nicolas Cage? Serious crimes!, wrote user raeracquel, cha
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