If you’re mad at Facebook, delete your account

Published May 16, 2019 6:43pm ET



The only good thing about Facebook is that no one is required to have an account. I deleted mine a year ago. Now, whenever someone talks about it, I feel like I’ve gone back in time: People still use Facebook?

Liberals are angry that Facebook didn’t do anything about Russians using the platform to spread ridiculous political memes during the 2016 election, obviously stealing the White House from Hillary Clinton. Conservatives are angry that Facebook’s algorithm sometimes buries content from right-leaning news websites and because some conservative personalities have had their pages suspended or deleted for any number of dumb reasons.

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