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Facebook 'Mistakenly Deleted' Mark Zuckerberg's Old Posts

Facebook 'Mistakenly Deleted' Mark Zuckerberg's Old Posts

By Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: 30 March 2019 14:41 IST

Some of the deleted Mark Zuckerberg posts date back to 2007 and 2008

Highlights

Facebook blames technical errors for the deletion
Some of Zuckerberg's old posts can still be found on the company's blog
Total number of deleted posts is unclear

In a bizarre incident, social networking giant Facebook has said that it "mistakenly deleted" CEO Mark Zuckerberg's old posts, some of them dating back to 2007 and 2008. A spokesperson from the company reportedly said many of Zuckerberg's old posts about Facebook can still be found on the company's blog and in its newsroom.

"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," CNET quoted a Facebook spokesperson as saying on Friday.

The spokesperson added that they didn't know how many total posts were deleted.

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 has gone missing over the years.

"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," the Business Insider said.

Meanwhile, facing flak after the New Zealand terror attack that was live-streamed on its platform, the social media giant is now exploring restrictions on who can use its "Facebook Live" feature.

Facebook came under pressure after a white man live-streamed a terror attack on two mosques in Christchurch on Facebook Live.

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