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Update: This message is no longer appearing on people's profiles. A Facebook spokesperson explained to us in an emailed statement what happened: "For a brief period today, a message meant for memorialized profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts. This was a terrible error that we have now fixed. We are very sorry that this happened and we worked as quickly as possible to fix it."
Original story: If you logged onto Facebook and saw a notification that you passed away, don't freak out. Obviously, if you're reading the notice, you're not dead. It's unclear what's happening other than a bug telling everyone that they're dead. An example of what it looks like is below.
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The message is popping up on numerous people's profiles.
In the meantime though APPARENTLY FACEBOOK THINKS I'M DEAD. pic.twitter.com/F0JMSJEEwJ [1]
— Courtney Enlow (@courtenlow) November 11, 2016 [2]
Omg catch this bug while its hot: facebook has memorialized all of its accounts accidentally. We're all dead!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/eqbtL7iGas [3]
— 🌹Anna (@annaniess) November 11, 2016 [4]
Even Mark Zuckerberg's profile has the same message.
Zuck dead pic.twitter.com/J8y5LbfQBz [5]
— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) November 11, 2016 [6]
We've reached out to Facebook and will update the post if we hear back.