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Facebook Glitch Sends Email to Wrong Recipients

Posted on February 26, 2010July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Jennifer Valentino-Devries reports:

Facebook Inc. said a glitch with a software update caused some email messages to be sent to the wrong recipients for “a short time” late Wednesday, raising questions about privacy on the site.

A Facebook spokeswoman said the company was still investigating the problem and didn’t have specific data on the number of people affected by the glitch.

“During our regular code push yesterday evening, a bug caused some misrouting to a small number of users for a short period of time,” Facebook said in a statement.

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