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Zuckerberg can unsend Facebook messages, and soon you can too
August 19, 2025
Remember that time you sent a nastyFacebookmessage to your ex that you immediately regretted right after you hit the enter key? Yeah, me neither, that never happened to me, ever.
Well, if it hypothetically happened, you wouldn’t be able to unsend that Facebook message. But the world found out yesterday,viaTechCrunch, thatMark Zuckerberghad the power to unsend Facebook messages when multiple reports confirmed that messages from Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives mysteriously disappeared from inboxes. However, the messages to those Facebook employees remained.
It turns out that Zuckerberg and co could unsend messages for a long time, possibly for the past four years. But us regular folk do not have the ability.
Now that this secret unsend feature is causing even more PR woes for Facebook to pile on top ofall the other woesthe company is facing,Facebook leadership confirmedthat not only will “regular” users get an unsend feature at some point in the future, but the function will be blocked for all Facebook executives until that time.
Here is the statement from Facebook regarding the unsend feature:
This whole situation makes you wonder what other secret features elite Facebook users have that us peasants do not. It also makes you wonder, if journalists hadn’t caught onto this story, would Facebook ever have made this unsend feature public?
If you are already on team “I hate Facebook,” this story is likely to simply reconfirm your stance. However, there are probably a lot of on-the-fence Facebook users out there for whom this will be the last straw, as it is another example of Facebook only fessing up to problems when caught red-handed.
It doesn’t seem like the #deletefacebook trend is going away any time soon.
NEXT:Go ahead, delete Facebook. You’ll be back.
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