---
title: Why Did Facebook Block News of Its Own Breach in Timelines?
description: Why did Facebook block stories about its own data breach? Facebook censors news about getting hacked. Examples of Facebook blocking legitimate content.
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# [Why Did Facebook Block News of Its Own Breach in Timelines?](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/facebook-blocks-news-of-own-facebook-breach)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Mon | Oct 1, 2018 | 8:50 PM Z

A few days ago, [Facebook announced](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/facebook-cyber-attack-update) that at least 50 million user accounts were impacted by a new security breach. 

### **Step 1: Facebook announces the new breach**

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg even posted an update on Facebook about it:

News traveled around the world in seconds, as we expect these days.

### **Step 2: Facebook blocks postings of The Guardian report on breach**

But here's the surprise: When others went to share *The Guardian's* story about the Facebook breach on Facebook, the social media outlet blocked it as spam:

### **Step 3: Facebook blocks AP article on the Facebook breach**

And others noticed an *Associated Press* article on the Facebook breach was also being blocked by Facebook.

### **Step 4: Facebook responds to blocking stories on its breach**

Tech writer Kate Conger pointed out the blocked articles to Facebook and actually got a response, which is impressive:

It is a little ironic that Facebook saw posts about its latest 2018 breach as fake news, isn't it? However, it does make sense from a sheer big data point of view. Really, really big data.

So it does seem like there's a logical explanation for the blocked articles that are now going through. Although, not everyone on Twitter seems to buy the reasoning:

It's certainly been a crazy few days for Facebook.

**Facebook's crazy 72 hours**

First, Facebook [forces 90 million users to log back in](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/facebook-cyber-attack-update), then it blocks news of the breach on its own site.

While this is happening, a hacker cancels [plans to delete Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page in a live stream event](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/facebook-hacker-livestream-zuckerberg). *So at least that's a win.*

However, at the same time, the man who is credited with creating the modern internet announced plans to develop a new internet that will [take power from tech giants like Google and Facebook and return it to the people.](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/new-world-wide-web-inventor)

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