Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen explosive rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will end its third-party fact-checking system, loosen content moderation policies, and roll back previous limits to the amount of political content in user feeds.
Welcome to the club y’all. What took you so long?
I nuked my account after Cambridge Analytica.
I assumed this would be the obvious, en masse response to learning, definitively, that FB is absolutely using its algorithms and data to intentionally manipulate society in general.
Nope!
A decade ish later and here we are, society ripping itself apart with neuroses and hatred, apparently just apparently not realizing that the algorithm optimizes toward outrage, that this makes everyone emotionally unstable and believe insane mis and disinfo.
Great work Zuck! Speedrun of destroying the underlying social fabric that allows a functioning democracy to be possible.
Onward to oblivion.
2015 for me.
Momentum and unwillingness to sacrifice I guess? I do lose out on connecting with people who aren’t anywhere else (generally not an issue for people that are important to me), potential fb marketplace deals, etc.