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I used the Perl script that is described here Post a message to the wall of a page as this page (not the admin) to post to the wall of our page https://www.facebook.com/pages/HPSG/1484559088426611

I can see all the postings in the activity log:

Activity log of FB page

But I cannot delete them:

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The message says:

"This content is no longer available The content you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may have expired, or you may not have permission to view this page."

So my question is: Is this a bug in FB? Can there be any problems with the permissions the app has? After all I am the maintainer of the side, I should be able to delete everything via the fb-webpage, shouldn't I? Can the problem be due to the fact that I posted similar content with the same URL and same timestamp?

Sometimes posts do not appear at all and this can be fixed by highlighting it or another post. This all looks really buggy to me, but may be I am just doing things I am not supposed to do.

Thanks for help!

Edit:

Screenshot of single post

Edit:

I can access the posting (this is a more recent posting): enter image description here

But when I try to delete it, I get: enter image description here

{
  "error": {
    "message": "An unknown error has occurred.", 
    "type": "OAuthException", 
    "code": 1
  }
}

Debugging the access token says it is OK:

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  • Before deleting click on the time (see 10:02 in the screenshot), see if the complete story appears – Sahil Mittal Apr 01 '14 at 06:19
  • That's really strange! Can you please try deleting the same with [Graph API Explorer](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer). Select `DELETE` from the drop down and change the access token to yours and try – Sahil Mittal Apr 01 '14 at 07:18
  • @StefanMüller: It might be a good idea to not only update the post in situations like this but also write a comment to the person helping you. They do not get notified of edits, just of comments, especially those with an @ followed by their name at the beginning. Very helpful people tend to be in a lot of commenting threads on different questions at the same time and sometimes forget they asked for something in an older question if they do not get notified again. – DeVadder Apr 01 '14 at 09:47
  • @DeVadder Thanks for pointing this out! – Stefan Müller Apr 01 '14 at 09:55
  • @SahilMittal I edited my post and added the error message. – Stefan Müller Apr 01 '14 at 09:56
  • Something's wrong when you are posting the status. Try posting a status using the page access token with Graph API Explorer `POST`, take the post id and try to delete it!\ – Sahil Mittal Apr 01 '14 at 10:09
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    @SahilMittal OK: I can `post` and `delete`via the Graph API, but I cannot delete the stuff that I added via the Graph API via the web-page with normal GUI tools. I did some further testing and found out that I can delete such postings, if I did not use the backdated_time field in the posting. I experienced similar problems with redating galeries. They disappeared and did not display properly. Maybe this is just a facebook bug. – Stefan Müller Apr 01 '14 at 11:00
  • Ok great. You can post the answer so that it may help others – Sahil Mittal Apr 01 '14 at 11:02

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