Zuck just realized that his main FB user base is older conservative people that he can either lose even more to X and Gab, or he can let FB turn into the wild west the users want.
His IG user base is stable, young, and left-leaning. So he still has those users in another segment of the business until some mass exodus to pixelfed that won’t every really happen.
Wait…purchase? With what money? All that savings from Elon’s DOGE fantasy that hasn’t done anything yet?