Right - that's a good explanation, but I'm clear on the persistence of the media after deletion.
What I'm wondering about is how it explicitly became genuinely available (as opposed to a lingering cached copy here and there) after it was (allegedly) marked for deletion, in the absence of that functionality on facebook's front end.
Facebook's deletions are surely soft-deletions, at least initially. You and I can't undo it, but Facebook undoubtedly can. Maybe it's purged for real after 90 days or something, but I'm sure they can provide deleted death threats against the President to the Secret Service and whatnot.
