Just a rumor. He did suddenly disappear without a word though.
Maybe somebody got a life? One could hope...
I pulled up stakes from Facebook when I had a conversation on my landline telephone with a friend. He was going to spend some time in a hotel resort before they left for a cruise. I come back to my cell phone after the call and suddenly every ad I saw was for that particular resort.
The only app that had access to my microphone, other than my OS apps, was the Facebook Messenger...
From that moment, I yanked it. I tried to turn off the permissions on the microphone and it gave me all sorts of errors. Big brother.