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posted by janrinok on Saturday April 07 2018, @10:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-try-deleting-your-own-data dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 08 2018, @07:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 08 2018, @07:47PM (#664048)

    Evidence?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @01:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @01:29AM (#664114)

    Evidence?

    Well, there is none, by definition. Do you know what shadow-banning is? But archfeld is on the case, with a journal on the missing journals. Look for this one to disappear shortly as well. One of the eds admitted that no one really understands how the mod system on SN works. OMG! You don't think? SoylentNews has become sentient? Which bot is it? Is it a singularity? Or a Basilisk? Don't look, in fact, look away, look away!!