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📵🔍 Stat of the Day: The number of Google searches for how to delete Meta’s social media platforms – Facebook, Instagram, and Threads – has increased 5,000+% over the past week. The uptick comes after Meta announced a new plan to replace its third-party fact-checking system with a Community Notes model and roll back previous limits to the amount of political content in user feeds.

More broadly, America’s social media landscape is also poised to undergo an industry-shaking change. The deadline for Congress’ TikTok sale-or-ban law is set to take effect this Sunday (barring any SCOTUS intervention or speculative hail mary sale) – which has creators and users scrambling for a new social media app to fill the impending dance- and- GRWM- video- sized hole in their daily schedules.

🤔 Did You Know? Nintendo has had just six presidents since its founding in 1889, with an average tenure of ~23 years apiece.

📰 Worth a Read: If you think you are ‘just not a math person’ then think again → (Psyche)

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