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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by Wingman4l7 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @10:45PM (#22895750)
I kinda doubt that Facebook actually deletes, as opposed to setting a DB flag... weren't they caught logging comments that were typed in but then modified / deleted / not actually posted?
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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by ciupicri on Thursday April 16, 2020 @11:16PM (#22895897)
The other party, i.e. the recipient still has an copy, so it could be a DB flag indeed. Although when both persons delete the message it might still lay around for who knows how long.
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