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.

Comments

I call BS

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Sorry

[Comboman]

Facebook, of all companies, should know that nothing on the Internet is ever truly gone.

Which is why Facebook has been blocking archiving by the Wayback Machine since January 2011.

Don't use facebook

[WCMI92]

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.