Facebook Glitch Made It Appear Some Users Had Died

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Some Facebook users received an unsettling shock Friday.

Many of the social-media site's users saw their Facebook profile page topped with a message that referred to the process for "memorializing" the page of someone who has passed away. The message said Facebook hoped the users' loved ones would find comfort in seeing posts that others shared about them.

Even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's page had the death notice.

"This was a terrible error that we have now fixed," Facebook said in a statement. The company declined to say what caused the problem or how many users were affected. But the statement added, "We are very sorry that this happened and we worked as quickly as possible to fix it."

Copyright 2016 The Associated Press.

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