A temporary bug affected the accounts of some Facebook users on Tuesday, causing their listed political views to be reset.
The issue has since been resolved, the company said, but that didn’t stop users — already sensitive from a change made by the company to user default email settings — from assuming the worst of Facebook.
The Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog first noticed the change Tuesday. It appeared that the bug only affected users who had entered free text as their “Political Views,” instead of parties and ideologies already attached to a Facebook Page such as “Liberal,” “Conservative,” “Republican,” “Democrat” or some other large party.
The unauthorized change affected users who might otherwise choose to express their political beliefs in terms outside of traditional partisan lines. The change was not permanent, however, as users were able to restore their previously stated views back to their profile.
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