How to Quit Facebook – Consumer Reports

There are lots of reasons someone might want to delete their Facebook account, from an effort to spend less time on social media to anger over past privacy scandals or the presence of misinformation and hate groups on the platform. Those problems have been reported for years, but they’ve been getting more attention after recent reports in the Wall Street Journal showing Facebook buried evidence of all kinds of issues, including a system that lets high-profile users break Facebook’s rules about harassment and incitement to violence, a weak response to the ways drug cartels and human traffickers abuse the platform, and internal research demonstrating that Instagram (which Facebook owns) has a negative impact on teenage girls’ mental health. Congress launched investigations in the wake of the Wall Street Journal reports, which were based on documents provided by a former Facebook employee. In addition, the whistle-blower, Frances Haugen, filed complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that Facebook misled investors about its practices. But for anyone who’s fed up after years of bad news about Facebook, there’s no need to wait for legislators or regulatory bodies to take action. If you want to give the platform one more chance, you…
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