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Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram on the rise after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] kipo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

According to Google Trends, related searches like “how to delete all photos facebook,” “alternative to facebook,” “how to quit facebook,” “how to delete threads account,” and “how to delete instagram account without logging in” have become breakout searches, with popularity suddenly increasing by over 5,000% compared to previous periods.

So that is 51 times higher than usual? Am I mathing that correctly?

I wish stories like this wouldn't use percentages this way, and reported hard actual numbers to compare against.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 minutes ago

Yeah so if it was 100 queries per day before, its now 5100 per day. Or maybe we are both crazy.