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Facebook chats sent by Zuckerberg from several years ago or older were missing from the inboxes of both former employees and non-employees. What's left makes it look the recipients were talking to themselves, as only their side of back-and-forth conversations with Zuckerberg still appear. Three sources asked to remain anonymous out of fear of angering Zuckerberg or burning bridges with the company.
When asked by TechCrunch about the situation, Facebook claimed in this statement it was done for corporate security:
"After Sony Pictures' emails were hacked in 2014 we made a number of changes to protect our executives' communications. These included limiting the retention period for Mark's messages in Messenger. We did so in full compliance with our legal obligations to preserve messages."
However, Facebook never publicly disclosed the removal of messages from users' inboxes, nor privately informed the recipients. That raises the question of whether this was a breach of user trust. When asked that question directly over Messenger, Zuckerberg declined to provide a statement.
[...] [Update: Recent messages from Zuckerberg remain in users' inboxes. Old messages from before 2014 still appear to some users, indicating the retraction did not apply to all chats the CEO sent. But more sources have come forward since publication, saying theirs disappeared as well.]
https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/zuckerberg-deleted-messages/
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday April 07 2018, @11:02PM (2 children)
Annoying, perhaps. But it is irrelevant to 99.99% of Facebook's prison base and far from the worst that has happened to the company this week [lifehacker.com.au].
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday April 08 2018, @03:55AM
Oopsy.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 08 2018, @05:49AM
I don't know 'bout that. Read first post by AC again. Just think about it for awhile. Maybe Zuck does need to cover his ass. Oh-kay, maybe he can't just delete those specific messages that he needs to delete, because it would be to suspicious. So, he randomly deletes shitloads of stuff here and there. Some of it is hard deleted, some of it soft deleted, but there are a whole bunch of odd deletions. And, while there is a lot of confusion taking place, he gets that relatively small list of messages that MUST be hard deleted, and purges them from the system. Of course, at the same time, he'll have to destroy a bunch of backups, to be sure they can never be restored.
The more public "problem" is just so much smoke and mirrors, designed to hide the real operation. Maybe? Maybe not?