Wednesday, November 17, 2021

A Snitch in Time

Prosecutors are demanding that Facebook hand over data that would confirm the identity of group members and page administrators — but Facebook says those records no longer exist, because it deleted them after it banned the organization as part of an August 2020 content moderation sweep. [More]

I don't get it. Was it the embedded provocateur's day off?

(Note I had to right-click and open the link incognito window to get past the WaPo paywall. You can get basically the same story from other sources.)

[Via Steve T

1 comment:

Henry said...

“We find it hard to believe that a trillion-dollar company would be in a position where they would have deleted this information and have no way to retrieve it,” Torrez said.

Democrats be like: Janet Reno designed "instant check" to do this, why doesn't everybody else?