Facebook Users Going on Strike

The Facebook Logout Starts Nov.10, ends Nov. 13

Over the past few weeks, journalists have broken story after story based on leaked documents from within Facebook, detailing wide ranging abuses from mental health impacts on teens to widespread indifference to hate speech and violent incitement. 

The company had mountains of evidence that the platform was directly harming people. And time and again, company leadership chose to put profit above public safety, sacrificing its users in pursuit of maximal profits. 

Facebook Users Union started because it believes that fed-up Facebook users can demand, and win, significant changes in how Facebook does business that will make the platform less toxic and less dangerous, and change the norms across the social media landscape.

We deserve better, safer social media. 

It is clear that Facebook cares about its users’ engagement –  clicks, comments, shares – more than anything else – more than democracy, health, or our safety. 

That’s why Facebook Users Union is joining Kairos and other partners for the Facebook Logout on Nov. 10-13.

The advertising money that pours into Facebook comes from its uncanny ability to deliver its users clicks, likes, comments and shares by using personal information to target content. But we can turn off the spigot.

Log out of Facebook and Instagram next week on November 10 and join the Facebook Logout user strike. 

To logout of Facebook, leave a post on your timeline saying you are going on strike and then hit the logout button in the upper right corner of your profile page.

We already know and have experienced how Facebook has operated without any meaningful oversight and, as a result, has continued to be a catalyst for hate and violence both domestically and abroad.

It’s time that we hold Facebook directly accountable.