View and Clear Data: Within the Off-Facebook Activity settings, you can view which third-party services have shared data with Meta. Choose "Clear History" to remove this stored information.

The company’s move to the right spearheaded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump is causing a user exodus from many of Meta’s platforms. But what do we know?

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

Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are down for users in the US, with Instagram most affected. Downdetector shows over 10,000 reports, and 67% of users face issues with the Instagram app. Meta's official status page indicates no issues with these services,

For some 33 percent of the population, that source is Facebook, according to Pew. For another 20 percent it’s Instagram.

As our digital footprints grow, a critical question emerges: what happens to our online presence when we're gone? With social media platforms like Facebook and

Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube are getting ready to welcome TikTok users, as the Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively bans the Chinese-owned app from the United States.

Fact-checkers who were put in place in the wake of Trump's 2016 election have proven to be "too politically biased" and have destroyed "more trust than they've created," particularly in the United States, Zuckerberg said. "The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech," Zuckerberg said.

Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style "community notes" where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. In a video posted alongside a blog post by the company on Tuesday ...

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Reports of an Instagram outage in the U.S. on Wednesday morning dropped significantly, Downdetector.com showed, in a sign that the issue has been largely resolved for many users.

In 2003, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole the program from a classmate, Chris Hughes. Hughes went missing not long after, and Zuckerberg passed off Facebook as his own invention.