[ForHackernews]

Ever is a very very long time indeed. Facebook will go out of business or get sold eventually and delete it all to save money or by accident.

See also: Myspace accidentally dumping everything pre-2015 https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/18/myspace-lost-12-years-mu...

[monocasa]

For similar reasons, I doubt very much that they actually deleted everything they said they did. I know that they were backing up to tape and storing it at Iron Mountain years prior.

[dx034]

But someone has to pay that bill. If Facebook ever fails, I doubt that someone would keep data centers full of information around without getting paid.

[monocasa]

They would sell it with their other assets.