Facebook accidentally declared live users, including the very-much-alive Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg dead on Friday. The profile page of these users and Mark were memorialised with a message expressing hope that people who loved him would take comfort in posts people shared in tribute to his life.
Media reports indicated that some two million errant memorials were posted on profile pages. Facebook responded to this goof-up, citing technical issues as the reason for this mistake.
For a brief period, a message meant for memorialised profiles was mistakenly posted to other accountsFacebook spokesperson to AFP
This was a terrible error that we have now fixed. "The social network yesterday apologised and said it will work as quickly as possible to correct the problem.”
The mistaken memorial notices contained links to forms that can be submitted to have people's accounts at the leading social network modified into online memorials after they die. Part of the process is showing proof of death.
(With agency inputs)
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