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mesa to [email protected]English • 6 months ago

Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram on the rise after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunch

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Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
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    I hadn’t heard of this either but here’s an article about Facebook keeping shadow profiles on non-users that references an article from 2012 where Target’s data collection determined a teen girl was pregnant before she told her dad

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      Target didn’t figure out a teenager was pregnant before her father did, and that one article that said they did was silly and bad.

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