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> ... common knowledge that facebook does not delete a single thing ever they just disable it for user access.

That is correct, I remember there even was a presentation video from one of FBs engineers describing exactly that, also that they intended to burn that data to long time storage archival discs (probably already are). I have no time to look for that video but if someone knows what it was called please link to it, it should be somewhere on the youtubes.



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