Fake Facebook post claiming to protect users' copyrights on their posts goes viral again

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ANI Washington
Last Updated : Jan 06 2015 | 12:25 PM IST

A fake Facebook copyright post has once again gone viral on the social networking website that claims to protect users' content.

According to ABC News, the message being circulated claims to protects users' copyright on their posts after they share it as their statuses.

The message is a hoax since Facebook does not own whatever the users share on the site.

Under Facebook's privacy policy, users have the right to share and distribute their posts, subject to their privacy and application settings.

Also, users can easily secure their content of Facebook by clicking on the lock option in the upper-right corner of their profiles and double check their privacy setting.

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First Published: Jan 06 2015 | 12:10 PM IST

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