SOLD! Facebook paying users to delete accounts ahead of November.

The effort is part of a new research project Facebook announced in an Aug. 31 blog post to “better understand the impact of Facebook and Instagram on key political attitudes and behaviors during the U.S. 2020 elections.”

“We’d like to know how much you’d need to be paid in for deactivating your Instagram account…in late September for either [one] week or [six] weeks,” an Instagram notice to users reads in a screenshot Dwoskin posted to Twitter. “To participate, you must be willing to deactivate your account for both time periods and not use Instagram during that time.”

It isn’t a very good business model, but I approve of it more than their current one.