Hamza Ali Abbasi's post: My team might have made a mistake, says Zuckerberg

Actor Hamza Ali says Facebook removed his post, warned him after deactivating his profile

KARACHI: In a rare apology, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Monday admitted that his team may had have made a mistake in deleting actor Hamza Ali Abbasi’s Facebook post on the Paris attack.

Zuckerberg, in response to a comment on Facebook, said:

Zuckerberg’s reply to a comment. PHOTO: HAMZA ALI's FACEBOOK PAGE

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Later in the day, a member of Zuckerberg's Facebook team, Justin Osofsky, in a post said that Facebook had "made a mistake in taking this down".

"We apologise for this error, and hope that the author will re-post it as we are not able to restore it from our end," the post further stated.

 

Apology from Facebook team member, Justin Osofsky. PHOTO: HAMZA ALI's FACEBOOK PAGE

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Earlier on Sunday evening, Hamza Ali said the social media website had removed his post and warned him after deactivating his profile.

Hamza Ali’s post. PHOTO: FACEBOOK

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The removal of the post by Facebook was heavily censured since Zuckerberg had just a day ago declared that he would not cow down to extremists and curb speech on his site. The post by Abbasi got over 45,000 likes and some 5,000 shares.