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Re:Facebook Reveals New Security Settings Amid Privacy Concerns by atonse on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:03AM (#16698206)
I actually started researching this. How come someone hasn't built an app that uses the Graph API to delete these things for you?

Even a delete script on Github. I just haven't found anything. Or do the APIs just not exist?

The best I found were Greasemonkey scripts, and I'm just not going to do that.

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Re:Facebook Reveals New Security Settings Amid Privacy Concerns by kennu on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:11AM (#16698273)
I believe Facebook's Graph API intentionally does not support DELETE actions. I've had best success with a Chrome plugin called Social Book Post Manager, but it's not particularly fast or reliable either. At least it's able to delete something.
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Re:Facebook Reveals New Security Settings Amid Privacy Concerns by StavrosK on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:57AM (#16698774)
That's right, it doesn't. Or, at least, it doesn't support DELETE actions for things that weren't created by the app that's trying to delete them.

I tried to do that very thing, but it only half-works for Twitter, because FB doesn't give you access:

https://forgetme.stavros.io/

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Re:Facebook Reveals New Security Settings Amid Privacy Concerns by Jaruzel on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:12PM (#16700238)
A couple of years ago Facebook removed all of the API endpoints that allowed you to create or modify your own data.
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