Facebook’s plan to let users 'unsend' messages could boost harassment and bullying, experts warn

• Facebook plans to let users delete messages they have sent from the inboxes of other users.
• This feature carries the big risk of enabling abuse: Experts told Business Insider it could be used to hide evidence of harassment and to gaslight victims.
• The feature was announced shortly after it was revealed that some of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's sent messages had been secretly deleted.

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Facebook's recently announced plan to let users delete messages they have already sent to other people risks promoting harassment and abuse on the platform, experts have warned.

On Friday, the social network said that in the coming months it would introduce a feature to let users "unsend" messages sent via its Messenger app. The announcement came after TechCrunch revealed the day before that Facebook had been secretly deleting old messages sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg from recipients' inboxes, sparking uproar over breaches of user trust and double standards for the privacy of Facebook executives versus its users.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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