Meta’s new rules increase user searches for deleting Facebook and Instagram

Meta's new rules increase searches by users who want to delete Facebook and Instagram
Meta’s new rules increase searches by users who want to delete Facebook and Instagram (Photo: Greg Bulla/Unsplash)

After Meta announced it will relax its content moderation policies, users are searching for ways to permanently delete Facebook and Instagram.

The company announced it will end third-party fact-checking, meaning the publication and spread of fake news will become easier. Additionally, Meta has adopted a more permissive stance on political and hate speech on the platform.

Floods of protests began to flood social media, and according to TechCrunch, searches for “how to delete Facebook” in the US skyrocketed on Google Trends, a Google tool that shows how many times a term has been searched on the platform.

Many users argued that the company’s stance under Mark Zuckerberg aims to strengthen ties with Donald Trump, who will take office as the 47th president of the United States next week.

In addition to the surge in searches for “leaving Facebook,” internet users are already migrating to other platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky, networks that place more emphasis on content moderation.

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