WF-MEW46K
Facebook Automated Year-in-Review Highlights Showed Users Painful Memories
Facebook’s “Year in Review” algorithm which compiled content in users’ past year as highlights inadvertently showed painful and unwanted memories to users, including death of family member.
- Date it happened
- 2014-12-09
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