The mysterious disappearance of all the old publications of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account

Mysteriously, and overnight, the old posts of Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook are gone, the founder of the company. When someone tries to access the links that lead to it, a screen with the caption "This page is not available" appears.

These are all messages that he has published between 2007 and 2008 and which constitute a fundamental part of the Facebook story because Zuckerberg announced the news of the platform and conveyed his vision.

The disappearance was revealed by Business Insider, who contacted a spokesman for the company. The official version is that the publications were "eliminated by mistake".

"Few years ago, some of Mark's publications were deleted in error due to technical issues. The work required to restore them would have been too large and there was no guarantee of success, so we did not do it, "said the spokesman.

"We agree that people should be able to find information about previous announcements and important news from societyFor years, we have publicly shared and archived this information, first on our blog, then in recent years in our newsroom, "he added.

The truth is that discoloration of this material is not an isolated event. It adds the changes made by Facebook in the way you save your file, and this added make the badysis of the social network history much more difficult.

This coincides with a moment of deep crisis in the company, which is carefully observed for his responsibility in spreading false news and for multiple failures in privacy. After these incidents, it becomes more difficult to review the history of the platform.

To try to answer the critics, Zuckerberg said weeks ago that, in the future, the social network will be "focused on confidentiality", with more "private and encrypted services".

Zuckerberg, criticized for its management considered permissive of confidential data Facebook users, he intends to technically unify the social network with his other services Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp, and create a single platform for communication or secure payments.

Facebook moves to stop being "the digital equivalent of the city square" and thus to achieve security and privacy requirements in smaller-scale messages, Zuckerberg explained by giving his vision of the future of the company in a publication on the social network of his well. "We are committed to working openly and consulting with experts in society as we develop this", he added.

In the same week the billionaires ranking of Forbes magazine showed that its badets dropped by nearly $ 9 billion in one year, from $ 71,000 million to $ 62,300 millionZuckerberg said that now "people also want to connect privately in the digital equivalent of the show". "A privacy-focused communications platform will be even more important than today's open platforms," ​​said the CEO of Facebook.

"Today, we see that private messages, ephemera, and small groups are by far the fastest growing areas." of online communication, "he said, adding that" many people prefer the privacy of one-on-one communication or only with a few friends "and that" people are more cautious about to the possibility of keeping a permanent record of what they shared. "

"Public social networks will continue to be very important in people's lives, to keep in touch with all your knowledge, discover new people, ideas and content and give people a wider voice. People find this valuable every day and there are still many useful services to exploit them. But now, with all the ways that people also want to interact privately, it is also possible to create a simpler platform that focuses first on confidentiality"Zuckerberg says.

After admitting that currently Facebook "does not have a solid reputation" with regards to the protection of privacy, who have always focused on tools to share content more openly, the entrepreneur said, "We have shown that we can evolve to create the services that people really want, even in private messages and stories. "

"I think that the future of communication will be transformed more and more into private and encrypted services where people can trust that what they say to themselves stays safe and your messages and your content will not be eternal. This is the future, I hope we will help him achieve it, "he said.

The model will be that of WhatsApp: "Concentrate on the most basic and most private use case, messaging, make it as safe as possible. and then create more ways for people to interact in addition to calls, videochates, groups, stories, business, payments, commerce and, ultimately, a platform for many other types of private services. "