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23 October 2015updated 01 Jul 2021 12:13pm

Facebook now lets you search everyone’s old posts – here’s how to stop it including yours

Facebook wants to be a news source, so it's made two trillion old posts searchable. 

By Barbara Speed

Until now, Facebook was pretty good about keeping your posts private. Even posts set to “public” were viewable only if someone found your profile –  and it’s also relatively easy to make your own profile pretty much unsearchable on the site.

But all that is about to change.

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