Sounds like they are getting tripped up in a lie. In one of the linked articles on techcrunch FB legal says;
" we made a number of changes to protect our executives’ communications. These included limiting the retention period for Mark’s messages"<p>Retention policies are quite common in lots of companies. If I had to guess his posts were treated in the same way, but given it's FB of course there's an unnecessary lie weaved in, because well it's FB
Honestly, this really doesn't matter.<p>If there was problematic content,<p>a. Do you really think they would raise suspicion by deleting all old posts or just silently delete specific posts? If I we're a big CEO the internet had a fairly negative opinion of, I would assume that somebody has the old content archived.<p>b. Do we really need to raise a twitter storm for every public figure that did something controversial 10 years ago?<p>Edit: I'm just gonna leave this here: <a href="https://www.zuckerbergfiles.org/access/" rel="nofollow">https://www.zuckerbergfiles.org/access/</a>
Right. "Mistakenly deleted", Not recoverable, gone, zilch.<p>Great way to wash away history.<p>Why not start a service to take money from FB users and permanently "mistakenly" delete their content too?
When I was going through and manually removing my old posts, I couldn't delete any older than a number of years, and just got an error. I'd prefer the other bug.
Looking forward to reading the postmortem from Facebook's IT team on why this happened and how they plan to prevent it from happening to other users...
It would be a really great if some one helped Facebook undelete some of Zuck's old disappearing posts. Maybe put them on a server like archive.org where he can't touch them?
Hey can I have access to this service and mistakenly delete all my facebook history? Maybe set it up on a rolling basis and have it wipe everything a year old or so?
Given who he is and has been, I'm almost certain that some have archived all or most all of his public posts. And hey, I can point them to someone who'll host them anonymously ;)
In the article there is an example of a blog post that is missing on blog.facebook.com but can be found on web.archive.org. I could be wrong but I think changes to robots.txt can make pages "disappear" from Internet Archive, too. Many have made the mistake of assuming what is at web.archive.org is "permanent" only to watch it "disappear" when the domain name registration lapses and robots.txt changes.
>Our app is a wiretap that records all your audio, which we run through top data analysis programs for marketing, which we also incorporate as we track all your activity across the web.
>We also don't have the ability to put some messages back in a database.
> "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.<p>> ...<p>> These disappearances, along with other changes Facebook has made to how it saves its archive of announcements and blog posts, make it much harder to parse the social network's historical record. This makes it far more difficult to hold the company, and Zuckerberg himself, accountable to past statements — particularly during a period of intense scrutiny of the company in the wake of a string of scandals.<p>I frankly don't believe them at all. This is the same company that implemented special features to automatically delete his old FB Messenger messages in a way unavailable to normal users, so it would be harder for them to come back to haunt him: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/zuckerberg-deleted-messages/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/zuckerberg-deleted-message...</a>. They have zero credibility in this regard.
Their famous interview process picks only the best and the brightest in the cosmos, but these geniuses cannot perform proper backups of data in a company whose bread and butter is data?<p>What a load of bullshit.