What Facebook giveth, Facebook can taketh away. Facebook send out this little warning over the weekend:
Download your old Facebook Live videos by 6 June. We are sending you this email because you have previously broadcasted a Facebook Live video. Changes are being rolled out by Facebook to its storage policy for Facebook live videos. Starting on 19 February, Facebook live videos will be retained for 30 days by default on your Facebook Page or profile, during which, you can replay, delete or download the video. After 30 days, you will no longer be able to access your live broadcasts and they will automatically be removed from your profile or Page and deleted from our servers. As part of this transition, we will be deleting all Facebook live videos older than 30 days and we want to make sure that you have the opportunity to save your past Facebook live videos. Any existing live videos published before 19 February will be deleted from your Page or profile, but you can download them until 6 June. Click here for more information on our download options.
The city of Jackson and several other cities in the area such as Clinton stream their City Council and Board of Ealdormen meetings on Facebook. It's easy to understand why they use Facebook as it's probably much cheaper than streaming and storing them on their own website.
Jackson used to stream the City Council meetings as well as the 1% Commission meetings on the city website but has not posted any meetings on the website for regular meetings in October. The special meetings have not been updated since August (Those are usually the second meetings of the month.).
What does all this techno-crap mean for you?
It means video of past meetings (and even Mayor Lumumba's press conferences) will no longer be available on Facebook. A substantial portion of the public record will thus disappear.
Perhaps they should have used Youtube or Archive.org.
Does anyone think any of these cities are going to go to the trouble of saving their Facebook videos and uploading them somewhere else?
9 comments:
Actually, I prefer to forget about most of the content of COJ meetings
Maybe some of the scholars in Lumumba administration are tech savvy and can download them. It doesn’t hurt to dream.
It should be illegal for government entities to use fakebook unless it's redundant with their official media outlet.
This is why you shouldn’t be relying on Facebook for all this official government communications. Their TOS/EULA states anything you upload/create/store on their platforms becomes the property of Meta, Inc. and they have no profit incentive to store unprofitable content forever. There is a cost associated with every single byte of data.
Jackson used to ...
Jackson government used to demonstrate at least a modicum of administrative competence. All that was before July 3, 2017.
Hence the name "fakebook."
To "Antard is the WORST Jackson Mayor Ever" - he is the worst mayor in the history of mayors but also the WORST Jackson mayor ever.
Per GSL-01-01: Official minutes of meetings of the governing board of any local government entity or subdivision thereof.
Retention: Bound Copies - Permanent.
Facebook! Facebook! (Think Jim Mora saying “Playoffs!”)
Don’t worry, all of DOGE’s work and savings are listed on Twitter!! Absolutely transparent and trustworthy, so much more so than that COJ Facebook BS!. No worries. Nothing to see here.
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