For a while I thought that it was better to remain on Facebook to try to combat the misinformation campaigns there, but that is folly. My mistake was thinking I am immune to the lies myself. I have no doubt there are a number of facts I believe that are not true because of Facebook. It's an incredibly powerful tool for subtle persuasion, it's a big mistake to think that you can be immune from it.
Often I hear from FB users, "Oh, but I only use it to keep track of family, I never do surveys, and I never read news there." That's missing the forest for the trees, Facebook influences you in subtle ways, and Facebook follows you wherever you go in real life or on the web. This isn't something people can be immune to. They're using proven propaganda techniques that are actually illegal to use under the Geneva Convention and they're taking them much further. People have no idea that Facebook is controlling ads and in many cases content on hundreds of thousands of websites that you might not know have anything to do with Facebook. For example, the articles or advertisements you might see on you local newspaper can be tailored to you based on the detailed psychological profile Facebook has built and sold of you. They're micro targeting you across the internet and I'm not even sure that stops when you cancel your Facebook account.
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