Facebook Blames a 'Bug' For Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos (gizmodo.com)

Last week, The New York Magazine found that Facebook was archiving videos users thought were deleted. The social media company is now apologizing for failing to delete the videos, blaming it on a "bug." It adds that it's in the process of deleting the content now. Gizmodo reports: Last week, New York's Select All broke the story that social network was keeping the seemingly deleted old videos. The continued existence of the draft videos was discovered when several users downloaded their personal Facebook archives -- and found numerous videos they never published. Today, Select All got a statement from Facebook blaming the whole thing on a "bug." From Facebook via New York: "We investigated a report that some people were seeing their old draft videos when they accessed their information from our Download Your Information tool. We discovered a bug that prevented draft videos from being deleted. We are deleting them and apologize for the inconvenience. We appreciate New York Magazine for bringing the issue to our attention."

Comments

Re: Sure They Do

[HornWumpus]

Removed from the 'Personal Archive'.

The bug was it failed to set the hidden flag on draft videos, like it does all the other things facebook isn't supposed to be saving. Or ever have had, if you were fool enough to run their app.

Re:They use PHP...

[BronsCon]

PHP hasn't stood for that in years.