Europe is in some capacity doing that. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/facebook-marketplace-t...
Now I can't delete my Instagram, which I was using FB SSO for. They ocassionally send me marketing emails that I might want to engage with so and so's content.
How, when you nuked my goddamn account for no reason?
Anyways, if I had the money I'd short them -- they seem to be completely unconcerned with the few who'd consider giving them a second chance.
As for Tik Tok, as with Telegram having it's servers in Russia, I think the real issue is the data is in control of the PRC, rather than whinings about "fake news" -- people have consumed supermarket check out drivel like the Weekly World News for years, it's just moved online.
This is a massive problem, and not limited to FB itself. I had exact same experience with WhatsApp:
Had an account back when it was $1/year, then deleted shortly after FB acquiring WA. Years later tried to register again, since B&B I booked insisted on using it for key fetch instructions, and... No dice - "can't send SMS, try after 1 hour". Hour and a bit later - tried again, while running packet capture - still same message - and - no network traffic between me tapping "confirm number" and "can't send" message appearing. Clear grey-balling. No explanation, no recourse. Not even an acknowledgement.
The FTC over the past four years has taken a turn here and is starting to do that work again, it's slow but it needs to continue.
Second, these companies behave as publishers without any of the responsibilities/liability. This has to stop. If you publish just a chronological feed that's one thing. But when you algorithmically decide what people see when, and now introduce your own AI bots into the mix, you're 100% a publisher and need to be legally responsible for it. That legislation needs to be updated to reflect this.
Third, much of the root issues stem from advertising. These companies are driven to get and keep as much of your attention as possible simply so they can sell that attention to advertisers. If we all paid for it, the design of these services would be different. I'm not sure how to tackle that but it seems a start is privacy legislation to prohibit user tracking and sale or sharing of personal data.