I'm not at all a fan of Facebook, but I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt here since the author of this article doesn't provide any evidence at all that this problem was a deliberate ploy by Facebook to hurt Google+, let alone that Facebook is "paying Symantec to take the blame for the lie". Much more likely that it's a bug.<p>As Hanlon said: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."