Get paid to deactivate your Facebook or Instagram account
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Would you agree to deactivate your Facebook or Instagram account for one week or six weeks if you were paid to do so? According to the New York Post, Facebook is willing to pay as much as $120 to selected subscribers if they shut down their Facebook or Instagram accounts by the end of September. There is actually a legitimate reason why Facebook is willing to pay users to shutter their account; it is examining the role that social media plays in U.S. elections. Facebook says that it expects 200,000 to 400,000 people to participate.
You can get paid to deactivate your Facebook or Instagram account at the end of this month
Last week, Facebook spokesperson Liz Bourgeois tweeted, "Anyone who chooses to opt-in – whether it’s completing surveys or deactivating FB or IG for a period of time – will be compensated. This is fairly standard for this type of academic research." In explaining who will be allowed to take place in the program, Facebook says, "Representative, scientific samples of people in the US will be selected and invited to participate in the study. Some potential participants will see a notice in Facebook or Instagram inviting them to take part in the study. Study samples will be designed to ensure that participants mirror the diversity of the US adult population, as well as users of Facebook and Instagram."

Facebook and Instagram users can get paid to deactivate their accounts before the end of September
Facebook explains its plan by saying, "To continue to amplify all that is good for democracy on social media, and mitigate against that which is not, we need more objective, dispassionate, empirically grounded research." Independent data scientists will handle the research and the results of the study won't be released until next year.
This research won’t settle every debate about social media and democracy, but we hope and expect the researchers will advance society’s understanding of the intersection of technology and democracy. The answers will help us all to shape the rules of the road for the internet – for the benefit of our democracy, and society as a whole. That’s why today we are announcing a new research partnership to better understand the impact of Facebook and Instagram on key political attitudes and behaviors during the US 2020 elections, building on the initiative we launched in 2018. It will examine the impact of how people interact with our products, including content shared in News Feed and across Instagram, and the role of features like content ranking systems."
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