Are you over Facebook and Instagram? Organizers want you to join The Facebook Logout

Would you log off from Facebook and Instagram for a day? How about three?Social justice and civil rights groups are urging consumers to join a nationwide boycott starting Nov. 10 to protest what they say is the social media giant’s failure to address the destructive role it plays in American life, from the deadly COVID pandemic to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.Kairos, which is organizing the boycott, is calling it The Facebook Logout, the technology-focused racial justice group exclusively told USA TODAY.“People make this platform powerful, and without users, there is no Facebook,” Mariana Ruiz Firmat, executive director of Kairos, said in an interview.The boycott’s website says: “We’re really over Facebook. So we’re logging out.” It encourages other users to take the pledge. “From allowing white supremacists to plan a violent insurrection to ignoring disinformation for profit, Facebook is doing their worst,” it reads. “So we’re doing the thing that will get Facebook’s attention: logging out.”One of the boycott’s demands: The removal of Mark Zuckerberg as CEO.The consumer boycott comes as the drumbeat of criticism and rumblings of other boycotts intensify.►TikTok is on the Gabby Petito case: Are these amateur true crime sleuths helping solve it?►Are you over Instagram?: How to delete or…
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