Facebook intends to enable "cancel messages sent" feature via Messenger

Facebook announced its intention to launch the feature hours after it was discovered that the company gave its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, and other senior executives this advantage secretly.

Facebook users will soon have the ability to "cancel" or "undo sending" messages, hours after it has been revealed that the company has given its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, and other senior executives this secret advantage.


Yesterday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook had apparently given executives the ability to set a "retention period" for messages sent using Facebook Messenger. This allowed their messages to disappear from the recipient's inbox after a certain period of time.

The site quoted three sources that after searching the inbox for the messages sent by Zuckerberg via Messenger, they found that his messages had disappeared. But their responses were left intact. It was reported that one of those messages dates back to 2010.

A Facebook spokesman told TechCrunch that the changes were made after hacking email messages to executives at Sony Pictures in 2014. However, Facebook has not previously disclosed that the messages were "unsolicited" or that the company gave its executives such an option .

Today, Facebook told TechCrunch that it is now offering this feature to all users in the next few months.

Facebook now provides Messenger users with a chat feature that allows them to set a time-out to automatically delete messages after the time expires. Until the feature is released to all users, a company spokesman confirmed that it would stop deleting executive messages.

It is also not clear whether the recipient will receive a notification if the sender has deleted a sent message. Facebook's application, app, and extragmentation provides the ability to delete messages over a certain period of time, but the feature is to inform the recipient that the message has been deleted, unlike the feature that was secretly made available to Zuckerberg and his colleagues.

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