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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (4 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.

[–] takeheart 14 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah,

1 + (1*5000%) = 51

Honestly I prefer just writing "51 times more frequent".

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