After learning about the Lights Out Meta campaign, a boycott on all Meta platforms from January 19th thru January 26th, 2025, it sounded like a good idea, and after reading about it more extensively, I think it's a necessary one.

Here are the articles I quote from in this one-off boycott episode:

Meta's pivot to the right sparks boycotts and calls for a user exodus

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Lights Out Meta: R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe calls for Meta boycott to protest rise of US far-right 

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Meta Boycott And TikTok Ban Could Signal Social Media's Transformation

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Taking a Break from Meta- please join me in Boycotting all Meta platforms this week

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