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Meta is dropping the “Political Views” field from Facebook profiles.

Your weird uncle will still be able to post their political views to Facebook, but they won’t be listed in a dedicated field on their profile. And it’s not just political views: Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s also removing the Interested In, Religious Views, and Address fields on from Facebook profiles December 1st.

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