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Comment by AdamTReineke | Hacker News Reader

Holy shit... Literally ten years of Facebook posts and people's comments on them just up and disappeared from my profile. How is that ok?

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How can this be an issue? Since when you can claim anything posted on FB and expect it to stay online forever? It's a private company in an unregulated field, they can do whatever they want. They could decide to close shop any time if they wanted.

Hopefully it's just a 'soft' delete, and this can be undone. I can't imagine FB actually hard-deleting any information that might help them in terms of ads etc.

It's 99.9999% not a hard delete. They have fail overs and multiple backups.

Especially since it is practically impossible to delete anything there intentionally.

It sounds like it wasn't intentional, as Facebook has said they are looking into it, rather than putting out a post explaining their reasoning behind it.

It was intentional and posted about here

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/link-twitt...

and there was an HN story about this 19 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17721986

why is TechCrunch just picking up on this now?

Intentional on Twitter's part, yes. They're the ones who deleted their app.

Because Facebook can do whatever it wants??

I'm not sure why you were downvoted for this. It's right there in their ToS.

It's crazy the amount of people who think Facebook owes them something

If you are really that attached to your Facebook page then do a backup.

If you really think it's unacceptable that Facebook can do whatever they want with your data (and they can), just don't use it.

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