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Years of Mark Zuckerberg's Old Facebook Posts Have Vanished. The Company Says it 'Mistakenly Deleted' Them. (businessinsider.com)
Old Facebook posts by Mark Zuckerberg have disappeared -- obscuring details about core moments in Facebook's history. An anonymous reader shares a report: On multiple occassions, years-old public posts made by the 34-year-old billionaire chief executive that were previously public and reported on by news outlets at the time have since vanished, Business Insider has found. That includes all of the posts he made during 2007 and 2008. Reached for comment, a Facebook spokesperson said the posts were "mistakenly deleted" due to "technical errors." "A few years ago some of Mark's posts were mistakenly deleted due to technical errors. The work required to restore them would have been extensive and not guaranteed to be successful so we didn't do it," the spokesperson said in a statement.
"We agree people should be able to find information about past announcements and major company news, which is why for years we've shared and archived this information publicly - first on our blog and in recent years on our Newsroom." The total number of vanished posts could be significantly higher, as the very nature of the issue makes it extremely difficult to make a full accounting of what exactly what has gone missing over the years. The spokesperson said they didn't know how many posts in total were deleted.
"We agree people should be able to find information about past announcements and major company news, which is why for years we've shared and archived this information publicly - first on our blog and in recent years on our Newsroom." The total number of vanished posts could be significantly higher, as the very nature of the issue makes it extremely difficult to make a full accounting of what exactly what has gone missing over the years. The spokesperson said they didn't know how many posts in total were deleted.
Several years of posts? This looks like a deliberate attempt to destroy evidence/hide something.
Maybe Zuck will disappear next.
Winston rubbed his eyes as he pondered why the slip of paper instructed him to purge the social media history of one of the most popular and powerful figures in the tech industry.
FB should automatically delete every post older than 2 weeks.
This can be proven if no one comes up with copies of his posting history, I mean, he is the "founder", right?
HE should have backups... I mean dude... So if no one has them externally either, what DOES that say?
uhhh you can't make these captchas up... - reform
This is COVERUP / DAMAGE CONTROL, it's as obvious as Zuck's lying under oath to Congress.
In today’s world, deleting old posts seems like a good idea. The concept of people having aged or learned something in the time span of 10 years since they posted something, seems to be lost on the loudest voices.
L'Idiot
But not for you.
If you don't pay for it YOU are the product.
Corporatism != Free Market
Nothing is ever truly deleted from Facebook. Nothing.
I deleted my account, supposedly all the way. Not a "deactivation," but a DELETE.
That was 3 years ago. Last week I created an account using a DIFFERENT EMAIL ADDRESS that had not existed when I deleted my account THREE YEARS AGO, and guess what?
ALL of my old account was right there - came right up as if I had never left.
So not only does Facebook not delete ANYTHING, they keep tracking you AFTER you supposedly "delete" your account.
These people belong in jail, not at the top of the Internet food chain.
Often make this kind of mistake. Hiding or destroying embarassing or contradicting data. It's part of the belief system.
He tried to buy all the surrounding properties of his mansion so he could have, you know... a little privacy.
Next, water is wet.
See subject: Says it all & you are RIGHT AS RAIN imo (+ that of everyone else on the planet - Suckerberg's GOING DOWN & he knows it).
* His kind doesn't care as long as they get their SHEKELS @ your expense people (on MANY levels in society worldwide).
APK
P.S.=> It doesn't just LOOK it - it FLATOUT is imo... apk
FBI, NSA, SEC, or FTC needs to send some jackbooted thugs and take the physical backups before they 'accidentally destroy' those too.
All those tweets would be on backup media somewhere, and if they are not, then it is time to place some SERIOUS scrutiny on Facebook's data retention model, backup plans, and what their documented policies are.
Burn it all to the ground I say. The fact that I have to 'opt out' of third parties commercially violating my privacy by placing my information on facebook (via photographs with me in them, tagging, etc) and it somehow doesn't require signing a release like all other commercial uses of my likeness would require is offense and vulgar to the claims about American Intellectual Property, which seems to matter if you are weathy, but not if you are a pleb.
Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content
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How quaint
Facebook, of all companies, should know that nothing on the Internet is ever truly gone.
So Facebook is saying that there is a regular occurance that facebook posts just vanish because of technical errors and it's possible that they are just gone forever?
Well that doesn't exactly gives much confidence in using Facebook as an information platform does it?
The Zuckerberg Files.
I believe these are all the archives somebody on /r/DataHoarder snagged before Facebook accidentally hit delete 10,000 times and then accidentally dropped the backup drives in a volcano.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
You censored my comment with downmods? REPOST!
Remember how grainy and awful the moon-landing TV signal was? Well, NASA supposedly had a bunch of data tapes with not only a clean signal, but also telemetry data and the like.
What happened to it?
Naturally, NASA was short on tapes; they needed some tapes. You know, so they took those Moon-landing tapes and just wrote over them, like they were some old crappy recordings of a TV movie rather than a monumental item of human history.
Do you people believe this stuff? Of course not. We all know this was done on purpose by sophisticated people.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2804313-Bernie-Sanders-Just-Released-His-Tax-Returns.html = Are all Trump faggots inbred beyond even possibly literacy in the google-is-fucking-easy era? There you go, traitor.
TRUMP'S TURN? OR ARE YOU JUST DISHONEST TREASONOUS FAGGOTS LIKE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU ARE?
Hey Mark, have you hear of Elon Musk?
Totally believable. This happened at the BBC to a large portion of (very) early Dr Who episodes (Seasons 1 & 2) as well. Repeats were not a thing, back in those days. As it happens, someone made (bootleg?) copies - they returned them when they discovered that they were 'lost' episodes.
In other words this is proof that the company can permanently delete profile data. When will we have a delete button next to each item?
Come on, dude.
No one would have known that there would be blue-haired hipster SJWs infatuated with a transgender timelord space alien written originally to introduce history to children via a shoestring production budget.
The landing on the moon, though? PEOPLE KNEW.
Which is why Facebook has been blocking archiving by the Wayback Machine since January 2011.
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Wasn't I & you SUCKED MY DICK today lol &YOU had to EAT YOUR WORDS too hahahaha https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
* "MANGIA" chump... lol! You're CHOKING on your own WORDS you had to eat & have some DECENCY & MANNERS - you should NOT TALK w/ your MOUTH FULL of your words you had to EAT, lmao!
APK
P.S.=> TELL us, won't you, HOW DOES EATING YOUR WORDS TASTE? Like your FOOT in your MOUTH ramming them back down your CHICKEN/PENCIL NECK, spiced w/ the BITTER TASTE of SELF-DEFEAT perhaps? LOL... apk
Bullshit. Obvious lies. Cannot be trusted at all.
They hired the Myspace team to relocate a few servers.
It should be called identitytheft.com if there were laws requiring truth in advertising for websites. Zuckerberg and Sandberg would be in prison if they didn't own the government.
Corporatism != Free Market
More like hiding it because he is either embarrassed of all the stupid remarks he pulled out of his ass or they try to hide something that may be criminal is my guess. Nothing is ever deleted from facebook so that stuff is deleted by mistake can never be true.
*I* am the real APK! Don't listen to these TROLLS
And Bernie's dick is delicious.
-- APKocksucker
I'm not eating my words in PUBLIC self defeat. You are https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... so quit cryin wuss projecting you're a big baby (& probably gay - a REAL man doesn't act like a BITCH like YOU trying to get in "the last word" even though you PLAYED YOURSELF, lol).
An old girlfriend of mine said it best: "Fags are more WOMEN than WOMEN are" & your projecting proves it all the more.
* You did it to yourself.
APK
P.S.=> Lastly, see subject: Have some MANNERS & CLASS @ least - Don't TALK w/ your mouth FULL of your words as you EAT THEM (hehehehe) AND (lmao) WHILE YOU SUCK MY DICK hahaha.. apk
Didn't anybody else archive this stuff?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
These people belong in jail
For what? What they're doing is 100% legal. We need to vote for people who are going to change the laws. Europe can do it. But in the US... well... jobs?
I don't respond to AC's.
...you always have a Right to be Forgotten when you own the company that has a lifetime of your public Internet communications.
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
I'm not eating my words in PUBLIC self defeat.
We know APK, you only eat trucker dick in public down at the glory hole in the Pilot Travel Center off of I-85 near your house. Though you do cry at home, alone, in self defeat.
Considering today's date, I can't decide if their reason is an April Fool's joke, they just think we are too stupid and preoccupied to care, or the honest truth. In that order.
Beware of Sales Reps bearing gifts.
...as much as I trust Kim Dong Un. In other words, I don't.
has been for years. This is just part of it.
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So I guess their gearing up for a congressional investigation? Zuckerberg and his cronies should be going to prison but like Hillary they choose to just dispose of the evidence.
You give people more credit for being 'smart' than they deserve. Mistakes do happen all the time. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
Lodragan Draoidh
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
how is it a mistake when it happens to one person who happens to be the top dog at the service? could it be the rumors are true that he is getting ready to run for some political office and need to get rid of postings that could hurt him?
"Archive.org are you listening".....
dum dum DUM
Apks posts would disappear too
Censored by downmods? Repost!
We're talking about NASA; we're talking about a multi-billion-dollar, historical mission at the height of the Cold War, with all eyes around the globe watching and wondering.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist" is a phrase both now and then; it implies the indisputable NON-STUPIDITY of the people who were involved in the Apollo project.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that "stupidity" cannot adequately explain it.
Also, I always thought your Hanlon's razor was actually attributable to Napoleon Bonaparte. As it turns out, nobody knows from whence it comes.
"Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice."
- Surveillance Valley Razor
I guess he finally got the memo, and in a panic [DELETE] [DELETE] [DELETE]
He better set fire to the vault of backup tapes and the server farms too.
This wouldn't suprise me because
1 - video tape was very expensive back then. TV stations and production studios did the same
2 - They didn't think we would not go back to the moon for over 40 years.
3 - Nasa is still a government agency. The US gov't is famous for harebrained shit like this.
The presidency is alluring.
It doesn't matter how many times you go back to the moon; it's the first time that is historical.
It wasn't like nobody realized history was being made.
See subject & KEEP EATING YOUR WORDS (eating ur words != good nutrition) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
* Take you own advice whacko...
APK
P.S.=> You FAIL again, lmao (see link)... apk
UNTRUE: You do & prove otherwise stupid, lol - your reply alone proves it - why else REPLY if "you don't care"? No, you do, lol!
* LMAO!
(RoTfLmAo - THREATS now? "DOXXED" lol, oh I'm SO scared, lol... punk).
APK
P.S.=> You are LIVING PROOF that there are REALLY STUPID PEOPLE IN THE WORLD (you being that 'prime example thereof', lol)... apk
There was a rather close relationship between the moon landing and military technology. Some NASA data was purposefully degraded to hide the full military capability it could provide.
There also were old tapes with a technology using whale oil that were much better than the newer tapes which suffered from sticking and shedding problems.