After it was discovered that Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives had retracted messages, the company has announced plans to make this capability available to all Messenger users.
To say that Facebook has had a bit of a rough ride lately may be somewhat of an understatement. Last month, the company attempted to set the record straight with regards to the collection of call and text history on Android devices amidst the developing story involving political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica. While initial reports pegged the number of impacted users at around 50 million, new statistics released this week put that number at over 87 million.
Yesterday, reports surfaced that Facebook messages sent by top executives as well as Mark Zuckerberg were being deleted from inboxes, which also ended up being reflected in data downloaded via the platform’s archive download tool. When queried about the observation, the company said:
Before now, the ability to retract or “unsend” non-secret messages had never been made public or known to affected message recipients, separate from the message expiration feature functionality available in the existing secret conversations feature in Messenger. Having now been discovered, a Facebook spokesperson said:
At present, the company has yet to lock exactly in how the feature will be implemented but does bring further into question the integrity of its data stewardship and the transparency of its operations.
Source: TechCrunch
