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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.
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.
This is COVERUP / DAMAGE CONTROL, it's as obvious as Zuck's lying under oath to Congress.
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.
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.
Nothing of value? On the contrary. If these got deleted, that means that there's something in there they do not want people to see or remember. That makes it valuable.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Which is why Facebook has been blocking archiving by the Wayback Machine since January 2011.
Support Right To Repair Legislation.
They hired the Myspace team to relocate a few servers.
Didn't anybody else archive this stuff?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
...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