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by pryce 1593 days ago
My guess is that facebook engineer named 'di wang' of which at least one exists[1] was attempting to ensure the blocklist functionality worked in production.

Then again, the employee I found is an engineer in the ads department, so blocklist functionality seems unlikely for him to be working on.

[1] see linkedin. I have removed the link to an employees profile who may or may not be relevant and is not a public figure.

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> Then again, the employee I found is an engineer in the ads department, so blocklist functionality seems unlikely for him to be working on

... Unless there's also a blocklist for ads, and someone misconfigured the messenger list to pull that one in also. I've seen similar errors in other companies.

Or maybe somebody in FB blocklist dev carried out a vendetta against such engineer…