Facebook Accused of Removing Zuckerberg’s Messages from User Chats
Apr. 6, 2018Facebook doesn’t allow its users to delete messages they sent to someone else from the recipient’s inbox. Users can only delete messages from their own inbox, and even then, they remain preserved in theirFacebookdata which can be accessed using the Download Your Information tool. However, according to a recentTechCrunchreport, Facebook has deleted messages sent out by Mark Zuckerberg and a few other executives from recipient’s inboxes.
While Facebook’s reason sounds reasonable enough, what’s really irksome about the whole issue is that the company didn’t publicly disclose the removal of messages from users’ inboxes and didn’t even bother inform the recipients regarding the same. On top of that, whenTechCrunchreached out toZuckerbergregarding the matter on Messenger, he declined to provide a statement.
A Facebook spokesperson has since confirmed that users can only delete messages from their own inbox and even after they’re deleted, they’d still show up in the recipient’s thread. The company revealed no information about a “retention period” for normal users, which clearly indicates that Zuckerberg and otherFacebookexecutives received special treatment to delete the sent messages.
