Facebook has got billions of users around the globe. Even a tiny glitch will swipe away over a million users. On April 4th, Facebook users from all over the World abruptly found themselves struck out of their profiles. Without giving any prior notice and for no legit reason user account got blocked.
In some cases, Facebook accounts get blocked if the users don’t follow the community guidelines, but this hasn’t been the case in today’s occurrence, which many users have surprisingly.
The Meta-owned Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone explained that this was a technical glitch, and the responsible employees had promptly sorted out the error that caused the glitch. According to Andy, the problem only affected a few users. However, considering a billion users of the Facebook platform, the smaller users will also be in more considerable numbers if we put their accounts in the database.
Andy hasn’t spoken much about the incident. Still, the cause has been pinned down to a specific extent. In the first part of the examination, we could assume that the posting about the community standards will be mistakenly restructured since it has been connected with the AI systems.
Human examiners only become active when a user raises a complaint about a markedly wrong classification. However, in the existing case, Facebook users were imprecisely excluded from the database because the concept that no longer accepts any reports against account blocking as statements shared by users suggests that it was perhaps not a mistaken classification of current posts that goaded the error in the Facebook systems.
Users reported that they hadn’t posted anything on the platform for a long time. Instead, they used their Facebook account as a repository for remembrance photos and only occasionally got in conversation with their friends on Facebook.
