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Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

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Re: Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

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Post by rootusrootus »

Did FB really think it was going to remain a secret? "Unsending" messages that have already been read by the recipient is difficult to hide, and especially when you're the CEO of FB one of those past recipients is going to pick up on it pretty quickly.

Either FB knew and does not care, or their PR folks are completely incompetent (or in the dark), or hubris at the highest levels.

Re: Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

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Post by dbasedweeb »

rootusrootus wrote: post #2

Did FB really think it was going to remain a secret? "Unsending" messages that have already been read by the recipient is difficult to hide, and especially when you're the CEO of FB one of those past recipients is going to pick up on it pretty quickly. Either FB knew and does not care, or their PR folks are completely incompetent (or in the dark), or hubris at the highest levels.

Third option: Zuckerberg said, “just fucking do it,” and they just fucking did it. Total control is very much a double edged sword, especially when the person in control seems to have only a tenuous grasp of human nature.

Re: Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

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Post by well-here-we »

dbasedweeb wrote: post #6
rootusrootus wrote: post #2

Did FB really think it was going to remain a secret? "Unsending" messages that have already been read by the recipient is difficult to hide, and especially when you're the CEO of FB one of those past recipients is going to pick up on it pretty quickly. Either FB knew and does not care, or their PR folks are completely incompetent (or in the dark), or hubris at the highest levels.

Third option: Zuckerberg said, “just fucking do it,” and they just fucking did it. Total control is very much a double edged sword, especially when the person in control seems to have only a tenuous grasp of human nature.

Or lawyers made the decision as part of their “document retention” policy, and no one spent much time thinking about the repercussions.

Re: Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Sent Messages

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Post by jknoepfler »

saudioger wrote: post #8

I mean come on, let's not be coy here: Mark Zuckerberg literally can access and manipulate any Facebook data he wants. That's kind of his entire MO.

If you said this about Jeff Bezos and data on AWS, you'd be wrong. That's a bit apples-to-oranges, but what I mean is being an executive in a company does not entail access to customer data retained by the company.

I don't expect Facebook to be a good data steward, but they certainly could be. Not to AWS's extent (Facebook can't turn a profit without reading your unencrypted content, currently), but to a minimal extent at least...

Then again, whose trust are they trying to earn?

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