Recently Mark Zuckerberg had announced that his company is going to shut down the Meta fact-checking program. There is strong opposition to his decision. Advocates of transparency on social media platforms are criticizing this step of Meta. Apart from this, users are also not happy with this decision. After this announcement by Zuckerberg, people are searching for ways to delete photos and accounts etc. from Facebook-Instagram.
Why is Meta shutting down the fact-checking program?
Zuckerberg, while announcing this decision, had said that fact-checkers have been politically biased and have lost trust instead of winning it. Meta is preparing to introduce community notes like X in place of fact-checking. It will start from America. Zuckerberg said that this step is being taken to restore free speech."text-align: justify;">This fear continues to haunt the users
After this step of Meta, many questions are being raised among the users regarding the reliability and security of the platform. Some of these users have started looking at alternatives to meta platforms while some are deleting their Facebook and Instagram accounts etc. Their fear is that shutting down the fact-checking program will lead to an increase in false and misleading information on the Meta platform.
Users started looking for other options
After this announcement by Zuckerberg, people on Google have started looking for ways to delete Facebook and Instagram. The score of the search term ‘How to permanently delete Facebook’ on Google Trends had reached a maximum of 100. Apart from this, a large number of people are searching on Google for ways to delete all photos from Facebook, alternatives to Facebook, leave Facebook, delete threads account and delete Instagram account without logging in. In recent days, an increase of more than 5,000 percent has been seen in these searches.
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