Why is it weird? Companies can define email retention policies for their systems. Facebook (the company) uses Facebook (the product) as a communications platfor

Why is it weird? Companies can define email retention policies for their systems. Facebook (the company) uses Facebook (the product) as a communications platform, so Messages fills the same purpose as Slack or email would. Facebook's Workplace product advertises "Schedule content retention/deletion based on your policy" as a feature[1]. The only reason they needed to manually delete Zuck's old messages is that Facebook's usage of the product in this way predates Workplace. 1: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/workplace/integrations/compliance-integrations/ https://developers.facebook.com/docs/workplace/integrations/...