• As of today, Mercola.com will no longer maintain an active Facebook page. The page will remain, but no further posts will be made. Anyone who has been following me on Facebook is urged to sign up as a subscriber to my newsletter instead
• Earlier this year I issued a poll to see how you would feel about my leaving Facebook. The results arrived in late March, 2019, with just over 65% agreeing with my decision to withdraw from the platform
• July 24, 2019, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced Facebook will pay a $5 billion fine to settle some of the known privacy breaches, including that of Cambridge Analytica
• Corporate changes are also required under the FTC order. As CEO, Zuckerberg will be required to provide the FTC with a quarterly statement guaranteeing Facebook’s privacy program complies with the order, and “a false certification could trigger civil or even criminal penalties”
• $5 billion is only one month's worth of revenue for Facebook, and its planned integration of Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp will turn it into a global super-monopoly with unprecedented data mining capabilities

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