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Based on the history of these things, it seems likely that the reported 14M number will grow over time once the initial furor has died down...

• mygo 8y ago
  that’s already a giant number. if that’s the strategy they shouldn’t start the bidding with a giant number.
  • djrogers 8y ago
    They started with a much bigger number with Cambridge Analytica, then it grew much much larger.
    • mygo 8y ago
      to the average person... the shock value of 14 million is pretty much the same shock value as 1 billion. they’re both beyond the buku horizon.
• paulie_a 8y ago
  When Yahoo was breached it went from 50 million accounts compromised to all of them. This number will definitely grow.
• jhgg 8y ago
  I highly doubt it. The new feature they were testing was probably rolled out to a % of their user-base (as any sane company rolling out new features does.) Facebook has tools that lets them target experiments to specific subsets of their users. Chances are this experiment targeted 14M users in a very specific geography (generally English speaking users probably in the US/CA/NZ/AU). Most likely, this sounds like a UI bug where users in the experiment had their default "audience" for their posts set to Public, instead of the value that it is usually set to. The UI probably showed that it was being posted to the public, but obviously, if you weren't looking at that you'd probably expect it to have been the same as your previous default.