Facebook's vigilance in sussing out fake profiles took some HAL 9000 liberties yesterday when perhaps thousands of accounts — seemingly all women — were deactivated by a bug in a system designed to weed out false identities.
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Wed, 11/17/2010 - 8:17am
Facebook's vigilance in sussing out fake profiles took some HAL 9000 liberties yesterday when perhaps thousands of accounts — seemingly all women — were deactivated by a bug in a system designed to weed out false identities.