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1 Out Of 10 Are Deleting Their Facebook Account Over Privacy Concerns, Study Says (Video)

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Almost 1 in ten Americans are deleting their Facebook accounts because of privacy concerns. Veuer’s Natasha Abellard has the story.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in his testimony this week in Washington that there wasn’t a “meaningful” number of people who are deleting Facebook in the wake of revelations that data firms like Cambridge Analytica were able to steal personal information from millions of users.

But this seems unlikely, given the huge amount of press coverage. The hashtag “#DeleteFacebook” has trended, and you may even personally know people who zapped their Facebook account.

So Carolina Milanesi and technology research group Techpinions decided to survey a representative sample of 1,000 Americans about their feelings about the social networking giant.

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