https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/hours-after-zuck-deletion-scandal-facebook-announces-new-unsend-feature/
https://archive.fo/UQpKl
https://archive.fo/UQpKl
Hours ago, Facebook admitted that Mark Zuckerberg had given himself special powers to delete old Facebook messages from recipients' inboxes—a feature that's not available to ordinary Facebook users. Now, in a remarkable coincidence, the company told Techcrunch's Josh Constine it has been working on a feature to allow any user to unsend messages. The feature will be available in "several months," Facebook says.
"Until the unsend feature is released for everyone, Facebook says it won’t unsend or retract any more of Zuckerberg’s messages," Constine writes. There's no indication that Facebook will attempt to restore Zuckerberg messages that were already deleted, however.
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Indeed, it's not clear if Facebook's new unsend feature will allow ordinary users to perform the kind of unilateral, retroactive deletions Zuckeberg performed. Facebook is considering adding an "expiration timer" to messages—a feature available in Facebook's "secret conversations" feature.
But that expiration timer is for marking new messages for deletion. It doesn't seem to allow retroactive deletion of years-old messages.
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