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Some 10,000 Dutch people have closed their
Facebook accounts following a call to action by television show host Arjen
Lubach, news website Nu.nl said on Thursday.
Lubach, who presents the Zondag
met Lubach programme, had urged viewers to take part in a mass closure event on
Wednesday evening in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Of the 30,000
people who signed up, Nu.nl estimates 10,000 actually shut down their Facebook accounts.
The news site bases its claim on checks made on 8,200 of the accounts which
were registered for the event.
Lubach said that Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg is unlikely to be affected by the closures.’That does not matter,’
he said. ‘Discussion has started and that is what this is about. And I do
appreciate the fact so many people were prepared to join in.’
There are some
9.7 million Facebook users in the Netherlands.
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