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Unless someone feels like breaking into a datacenter (and likely several cold backup facilities) and mechanically wiping data, that shit is there forever. Facebook deletes nothing.
"Never Delete Anything" is Standard at every place I've worked. What happens is that anything that is requested to be deleted is simply marked as "Deleted" in the database.
Not to discredit or counterpoint what you're saying... But in some jurisdictions, that's illegal. As an example, California RTA/RTF laws make it a requirement that some data should be deleted unless there's a different legal standard requiring the data be kept. Enforcement? Who knows?
To add, not deleted stuff is what my favorite lawyers call "discoverable". Not sure how many lawyers Meta has but I'm betting at least one of them is reminding them deleting stuff is a good thing.