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"This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019." https://twitter.com/Liz_Shepherd/status/1378398417450

• varispeed 6y ago
  What a pathetic response. Does it mean users changed where they live? Change their names? Deleted and started a new account so the ID is different?
  • TheRealDunkirk 6y ago
    > Deleted. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." I "deleted my account" in the run-up to the 2016 election, because I could see how social media was being manipulated, and what it is doing to society. And I mean I _deleted_ it. I took the extra steps of researching how to REALLY delete it; not just suspend it. A couple years later, I needed to get a new account to help admin a page. You can guess where this is going. I tried my usual email -- since it should be free, and it was deleted, right? And... what do you know? Everything was still there. All my posts. All my connections. Everything. Facebook never deletes anything.
    • varispeed 5y ago
      I think this is because is very expensive to delete and also to develop true delete process. I think that is not acceptable and cost shouldn't be an excuse for keeping content forever. Even if you manage to get deleted from the live servers, chances are your content is still going to live in backups and will never be deleted. Some backup systems are write-once and could only be deleted by physically destroying the medium. I wish this was properly addressed in legislation.