And they’re not just dropping TikTok. NBC News reports that there has been a Meta exodus, with users boycotting and leaving Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. The departure follows CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who attended Trump’s inauguration alongside many other tech giants, ending Meta’s fact-checking program, disbanding its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) team, and updating its policy on hateful conduct that green-lights equating queerness to a mental illness. Since Elon Musk took over X, formerly known as Twitter, in 2022, many users also abandoned that app, with its largest exodus coming after the Presidential Election in November 2024.
