Thoughts on Facebook's Mistaken Deletions
The company's explanation doesn't come close to passing the smell test.
No, this is not an April Fool's joke.
It's easy to miss key events in a non-stop news cycle. I do all the time. Odds are that you may not have caught the Business Insider piece titled Years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts have vanished. The company says it 'mistakenly deleted' them. From the article:
On multiple occasions, 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."
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