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Facebook’s On-This-Day Feature Mistakenly Showed Painful Memories to Users
Facebook’s “On This Day” algorithm which highlighted past posts on a user’s private page or News Feed confronted unwanted and painful personal memories to its users.
- Date it happened
- 2015-03-24
- Organisation involved
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