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Social Media Bug Creates #FacebookRapture

Many Facebook users have been discovering a new problem with their accounts — a banner on the top of their homepage, telling people they are dead. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was one of the victims of the bug that emerged this week on the social networking site. Some wits have titled the phenomenon #FacebookRapture, referring to a biblical story about people being removed from Earth in mass numbers. While the notion is jarring, the message sounds benign. The banner, which appears...

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