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		AlexandrB on Oct 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook account banned after linking Oculus accou... Given that Facebook creates shadow profiles for "users" who have never had a Facebook account, I wonder what "deleted" really means in terms of Facebook's social graph. Is your identity back to being treated as a shadow profile or is there now an empty hole in the graph?

dtech on Oct 14, 2020 [–]

I filed a GDPR deletion request after it went in to effect. I wonder if such a shadow profile would even be allowed under it.

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