1 in 4 Americans Really Have Deleted Facebook’s App, Pew Study Finds

Americans have soured on Facebook in the past year, as more people come to terms with the toxic role that the social media platform plays in their lives. A new Pew Research Center survey shows that a large percentage of the population has taken extended breaks from Facebook in the past year, with 26 percent of American users saying that they’ve deleted the app from their phones completely.

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Gizmodo has reached out to Facebook for comment. We’ve asked why they believe young people are deleting the Facebook app from their phones and whether it has anything to do with Facebook’s complicity in genocide. We’ll update this article when we hear back.

Oh, that very last paragraph is such a nice burn.

In other Facebook news: Facebook Sorry for Deleting Holocaust Education Post Over Photo of Nude, Starving Jewish Children

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