diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 579a33d0c9..4c931b4017 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -2745,7 +2745,6 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
 		data = {'title': r'\("video_title", "(.*?)"\)',
 			'description': r'<div class="datawrap">(.*?)</div>',
 			'owner': r'\("video_owner_name", "(.*?)"\)',
-			'upload_date': r'data-date="(.*?)"',
 			'thumbnail':  r'\("thumb_url", "(?P<THUMB>.*?)"\)',
 			}
 		video_info = {}