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A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks | There is an exodus of users who are ditching Meta platforms following the decision to end fact checking.
There is an exodus of users who are ditching Meta platforms following the decision to end fact checking.
In the wake of Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Meta platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will ditch professional fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes-style crowdsourcing approach to accountability, searches for deleting Meta accounts have spiked significantly. Zuckerberg accused people leaving his company’s platforms of “ virtue signaling,” presumably because he assumes everyone is as deeply unscrupulous and malleable as he is and wouldn’t do anything simply out of principle. A quick preface here: Facebook, through what could probably best be described as a willfully inefficient user interface, has created a labyrinthian maze of menus that you have to navigate in order to find the option to delete your account—and that maze will be different depending on what operating system, platform, and version of the Facebook that you are accessing.
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