Arkhaven was not the first company to reject Facebook and Instagram and it will not be the last:
Popular fitness brand CrossFit has deleted its Facebook and Instagram accounts with a combined following of about 6 million, saying the platforms betrayed users’ trust after they removed a popular nutrition-oriented user group.
“Facebook is acting in the service of food and beverage industry interests by deleting the accounts of communities that have identified the corrupted nutritional science responsible for unchecked global chronic disease,” CrossFit said in a statement posted on Wednesday, referring to the Banting7DayMealPlan group that Facebook mysteriously deleted – only to reinstate it without an explanation. The group’s 1.65 million users shared their experiences and information about low-carb high-fat diets.
Once a supposedly neutral social media platform demonstrates that it is in the thought-policing business, you should not utilize it any longer. The more corporates abandon Facebook, the more its rivals will see the advantage in political and ideological neutrality.