Facebook Bug Exposing Users' Private Messages On Timeline? New Glitch Reportedly Spo

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Have Facebook users discovered a bug that exposes private correspondences between friends on the social networking site?
According to Metro France, non-public messages sent between 2007 and 2009 may be appearing publicly on some users Timelines.
France's Le Nouvel Observateur is also reporting that private correspondences from 2010, 2011 and 2012 are being affected, as well.
The exposed posts reportedly appear peppered throughout public posts on the timeline.
"There may be messages in Inbox or chat conversations on internal Facebook. These messages are found mixed comments from friends on the wall," writes Metro France (per Google Translate).
Both publications have provided a quick fix for the bug, telling users to edit the privacy options on individual posts by clicking the "pencil" icon that appears at the top right of posts. From the drop-down menu that appears, the user can choose to hide a particular post from the Timeline or delete the post altogether.
Le Huffington Post, the French-language Huffington Post, has provided a screengrab of a user timeline showing private and public posts mixed together:

Fred Wolens of Facebook's Policy Communications team in the U.S. has told The Huffington Post that "no private information has been disclosed." Wolens also said that the posts appearing on users' walls are merely wall posts and not private messages or chats, as some outlets are reporting.
Meanwhile, an unnamed French rep for Facebook told Le Huffington Post that the bug exists and that a technical team is investigating. A rep in Spain told Spanish-language El Huffington Post that the company is looking into the problem.
Have you noticed that any of your old private messages are now appearing in your public Timeline? Let us know in the comments.



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