January 12, 2025, By heidimayo | Comments (Closed)
Progressive Opposition – Positive Resistance I’ll do everything I can to creatively oppose the incoming oligarchy. Join me! As we work to prioritize strategies and issues, this concern arose that has a simple action anyone who uses Meta products – Facebook, Messenger, Threads, Instagram, WhatsApp, and some business tools – can take. In response to Zuckerberg’s Meta dropping moderation and fact-checking to kowtow to the incoming administration’s disdain for truth, decency and institutions, a coordinated blackout of these services by enough users could send an effective message. A kind of “holler with your dollar” or in this case a refusal to support the social media that actually helped to create and now advances the mess we are in. https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/meta-moderation-transgender-women-hate
ACTION: Log Out of or Deactivate All Meta Accounts on January 19 (if only for a week or even a few days if you’re dependent on the platform) to send a message to Meta that we do not support the incoming oligarchy and Meta’s enabling of it. If enough people do it, it could have a powerful impact.
OPTION 1: Log Out of all Meta products on January 19, and stay logged out for a week.
OPTION 2: Deactivate all Meta accounts for a week (or longer). Deactivation does not delete your account, and you can reactivate. But beware, if you deactivate and reactivate, you can’t deactivate again for a week, so make sure you’re ready on Jan 19 when you click that button.
How to Deactivate: Click on your profile icon upper right; select Settings and Privacy; go to the Accounts Center in your settings, select “Personal details,” then “Account Ownership and Control,” and choose “Deactivation.” Follow the prompts to temporarily deactivate your account.
You can also permanently delete your account there. We recommend a deactivation period, and then you can always delete later if you choose.
Please share this widely, and ironically please share the banner below on your social media platforms including meta. The more people who participate, the more powerful the message.
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