‘Delete Facebook’ searches hit 5-year high on Google after Cambridge Analytica crisis

Days after news dropped that Facebook data was once again used for a shady electioneering plot, people are turning to Google. Their ask? How to delete their profiles.

Searches for “delete Facebook” spiked this week, when information about Cambridge Analytica’s data harvesting scheme hit the mainstream. New information from Google Trends, which tracks how popular a given search is relative to other moments in time, shows that, in the United States, there are more searches for “delete Facebook” now than any other time in the past five years. Read more…

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