evidence: Did Facebook or its parent company Meta announce a plan to charge all of the platform's users $4.99 a month for access? Will copying and pasting a post about the change allow people to "opt out" or "bypass the system"? No, none of that is true: Neither Facebook nor Meta made such an announcement as of this writing. Different variations of these claims have been debunked multiple times since 2009. [...] Just in case..... here we goI'm Opting Out too!So now they are doing it, recently announced on Facebook is charging all users starting Monday. You can do an opt-out by doing this. Hold your finger over this message and copy it. It can't be shared. I do not give permission for Facebook to charge $4.99 a month to my account, also; all my pictures are my property of mine and NOT Facebook's!!! [...] Facebook's help center explicitly refutes the speculations that the platform is going to charge all users for access: