diff --git a/lib/utils/fetch-json.js b/lib/utils/fetch-json.js
index ce85bbf56..108d0a7dc 100644
--- a/lib/utils/fetch-json.js
+++ b/lib/utils/fetch-json.js
@@ -1,206 +1,204 @@
 // @flow
 
-import _cloneDeep from 'lodash/fp/cloneDeep';
-
 import { fetchJSONTimeout } from '../shared/timeouts';
 import { SocketOffline, SocketTimeout } from '../socket/inflight-requests';
 import type { Shape } from '../types/core';
 import {
   type Endpoint,
   type SocketAPIHandler,
   endpointIsSocketPreferred,
   endpointIsSocketOnly,
 } from '../types/endpoints';
 import type {
   ServerSessionChange,
   ClientSessionChange,
 } from '../types/session-types';
 import type { ConnectionStatus } from '../types/socket-types';
 import type { CurrentUserInfo } from '../types/user-types';
 import { getConfig } from './config';
 import { ServerError, FetchTimeout } from './errors';
 import sleep from './sleep';
 import { uploadBlob, type UploadBlob } from './upload-blob';
 
 export type FetchJSONOptions = Shape<{|
   // null timeout means no timeout, which is the default for uploadBlob
   +timeout: ?number, // in milliseconds
   // getResultInfo will be called right before fetchJSON successfully resolves
   // and includes additional information about the request
   +getResultInfo: (resultInfo: FetchResultInfo) => mixed,
   +blobUpload: boolean | UploadBlob,
   // the rest (onProgress, abortHandler) only work with blobUpload
   +onProgress: (percent: number) => void,
   // abortHandler will receive an abort function once the upload starts
   +abortHandler: (abort: () => void) => void,
 |}>;
 
 export type FetchResultInfoInterface = 'socket' | 'REST';
 export type FetchResultInfo = {|
   +interface: FetchResultInfoInterface,
 |};
 
 export type FetchJSONServerResponse = Shape<{|
   +cookieChange: ServerSessionChange,
   +currentUserInfo: CurrentUserInfo,
   +error: string,
   +payload: Object,
 |}>;
 
 // You'll notice that this is not the type of the fetchJSON function below. This
 // is because the first several parameters to that functon get bound in by the
 // helpers in lib/utils/action-utils.js. This type represents the form of the
 // fetchJSON function that gets passed to the action function in lib/actions.
 export type FetchJSON = (
   endpoint: Endpoint,
   input: Object,
   options?: ?FetchJSONOptions,
 ) => Promise<Object>;
 
 type RequestData = {|
   input: { [key: string]: mixed },
   cookie?: ?string,
   sessionID?: ?string,
 |};
 
 // If cookie is undefined, then we will defer to the underlying environment to
 // handle cookies, and we won't worry about them. We do this on the web since
 // our cookies are httponly to protect against XSS attacks. On the other hand,
 // on native we want to keep track of the cookies since we don't trust the
 // underlying implementations and prefer for things to be explicit, and XSS
 // isn't a thing on native. Note that for native, cookie might be null
 // (indicating we don't have one), and we will then set an empty Cookie header.
 async function fetchJSON(
   cookie: ?string,
   setNewSession: (sessionChange: ClientSessionChange, error: ?string) => void,
   waitIfCookieInvalidated: () => Promise<?FetchJSON>,
   cookieInvalidationRecovery: (
     sessionChange: ClientSessionChange,
   ) => Promise<?FetchJSON>,
   urlPrefix: string,
   sessionID: ?string,
   connectionStatus: ConnectionStatus,
   socketAPIHandler: ?SocketAPIHandler,
   endpoint: Endpoint,
   input: { [key: string]: mixed },
   options?: ?FetchJSONOptions,
 ) {
   const possibleReplacement = await waitIfCookieInvalidated();
   if (possibleReplacement) {
     return await possibleReplacement(endpoint, input, options);
   }
 
   if (
     endpointIsSocketPreferred(endpoint) &&
     connectionStatus === 'connected' &&
     socketAPIHandler
   ) {
     try {
       const result = await socketAPIHandler({ endpoint, input });
       options?.getResultInfo?.({ interface: 'socket' });
       return result;
     } catch (e) {
       if (endpointIsSocketOnly(endpoint)) {
         throw e;
       } else if (e instanceof SocketOffline) {
         // nothing
       } else if (e instanceof SocketTimeout) {
         // nothing
       } else {
         throw e;
       }
     }
   }
   if (endpointIsSocketOnly(endpoint)) {
     throw new SocketOffline('socket_offline');
   }
 
   const url = urlPrefix ? `${urlPrefix}/${endpoint}` : endpoint;
 
   let json;
   if (options && options.blobUpload) {
     const uploadBlobCallback =
       typeof options.blobUpload === 'function'
         ? options.blobUpload
         : uploadBlob;
     json = await uploadBlobCallback(url, cookie, sessionID, input, options);
   } else {
     const mergedData: RequestData = { input };
     if (getConfig().setCookieOnRequest) {
       // We make sure that if setCookieOnRequest is true, we never set cookie to
       // undefined. null has a special meaning here: we don't currently have a
       // cookie, and we want the server to specify the new cookie it will generate
       // in the response body rather than the response header. See
       // session-types.js for more details on why we specify cookies in the body.
       mergedData.cookie = cookie ? cookie : null;
     }
     if (getConfig().setSessionIDOnRequest) {
       // We make sure that if setSessionIDOnRequest is true, we never set
       // sessionID to undefined. null has a special meaning here: we cannot
       // consider the cookieID to be a unique session identifier, but we do not
       // have a sessionID to use either. This should only happen when the user is
       // not logged in on web.
       mergedData.sessionID = sessionID ? sessionID : null;
     }
     const fetchPromise = (async (): Promise<FetchJSONServerResponse> => {
       const response = await fetch(url, {
         method: 'POST',
         // This is necessary to allow cookie headers to get passed down to us
         credentials: 'same-origin',
         body: JSON.stringify(mergedData),
         headers: {
           'Accept': 'application/json',
           'Content-Type': 'application/json',
         },
       });
       const text = await response.text();
       try {
-        return _cloneDeep(JSON.parse(text));
+        return JSON.parse(text);
       } catch (e) {
         console.log(text);
         throw e;
       }
     })();
 
     const timeout =
       options && options.timeout ? options.timeout : fetchJSONTimeout;
     if (!timeout) {
       json = await fetchPromise;
     } else {
       const rejectPromise = (async () => {
         await sleep(timeout);
         throw new FetchTimeout(
           `fetchJSON timed out call to ${endpoint}`,
           endpoint,
         );
       })();
       json = await Promise.race([fetchPromise, rejectPromise]);
     }
   }
 
   const { cookieChange, error, payload, currentUserInfo } = json;
   const sessionChange: ?ServerSessionChange = cookieChange;
   if (sessionChange) {
     const { threadInfos, userInfos, ...rest } = sessionChange;
     const clientSessionChange = rest.cookieInvalidated
       ? rest
       : { cookieInvalidated: false, currentUserInfo, ...rest };
     if (clientSessionChange.cookieInvalidated) {
       const maybeReplacement = await cookieInvalidationRecovery(
         clientSessionChange,
       );
       if (maybeReplacement) {
         return await maybeReplacement(endpoint, input, options);
       }
     }
     setNewSession(clientSessionChange, error);
   }
 
   if (error) {
     throw new ServerError(error, payload);
   }
   options?.getResultInfo?.({ interface: 'REST' });
   return json;
 }
 
 export default fetchJSON;
diff --git a/lib/utils/upload-blob.js b/lib/utils/upload-blob.js
index 0cafab469..62e1cf63b 100644
--- a/lib/utils/upload-blob.js
+++ b/lib/utils/upload-blob.js
@@ -1,119 +1,118 @@
 // @flow
 
 import invariant from 'invariant';
-import _cloneDeep from 'lodash/fp/cloneDeep';
 import _throttle from 'lodash/throttle';
 
 import { getConfig } from './config';
 import type { FetchJSONOptions, FetchJSONServerResponse } from './fetch-json';
 
 function uploadBlob(
   url: string,
   cookie: ?string,
   sessionID: ?string,
   input: { [key: string]: mixed },
   options?: ?FetchJSONOptions,
 ): Promise<FetchJSONServerResponse> {
   const formData = new FormData();
   if (getConfig().setCookieOnRequest) {
     // We make sure that if setCookieOnRequest is true, we never set cookie to
     // undefined. null has a special meaning here: we don't currently have a
     // cookie, and we want the server to specify the new cookie it will generate
     // in the response body rather than the response header. See
     // session-types.js for more details on why we specify cookies in the body.
     formData.append('cookie', cookie ? cookie : '');
   }
   if (getConfig().setSessionIDOnRequest) {
     // We make sure that if setSessionIDOnRequest is true, we never set
     // sessionID to undefined. null has a special meaning here: we cannot
     // consider the cookieID to be a unique session identifier, but we do not
     // have a sessionID to use either. This should only happen when the user is
     // not logged in on web.
     formData.append('sessionID', sessionID ? sessionID : '');
   }
 
   for (const key in input) {
     if (key === 'multimedia' || key === 'cookie' || key === 'sessionID') {
       continue;
     }
     const value = input[key];
     invariant(
       typeof value === 'string',
       'blobUpload calls can only handle string values for non-multimedia keys',
     );
     formData.append(key, value);
   }
   const { multimedia } = input;
   if (multimedia && Array.isArray(multimedia)) {
     for (const media of multimedia) {
       // We perform an any-cast here because of React Native. Though Blob
       // support was introduced in react-native@0.54, it isn't compatible with
       // FormData. Instead, React Native requires a specific object format.
       formData.append('multimedia', (media: any));
     }
   }
 
   const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
   xhr.open('POST', url);
   xhr.withCredentials = true;
   xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'application/json');
 
   if (options && options.timeout) {
     xhr.timeout = options.timeout;
   }
 
   if (options && options.onProgress) {
     const { onProgress } = options;
     xhr.upload.onprogress = _throttle(
       ({ loaded, total }) => onProgress(loaded / total),
       50,
     );
   }
 
   let failed = false;
   const responsePromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     xhr.onload = () => {
       if (failed) {
         return;
       }
       const text = xhr.responseText;
       try {
-        resolve(_cloneDeep(JSON.parse(text)));
+        resolve(JSON.parse(text));
       } catch (e) {
         console.log(text);
         reject(e);
       }
     };
     xhr.onabort = () => {
       failed = true;
       reject(new Error('request aborted'));
     };
     xhr.onerror = (event) => {
       failed = true;
       reject(event);
     };
     if (options && options.timeout) {
       xhr.ontimeout = (event) => {
         failed = true;
         reject(event);
       };
     }
     if (options && options.abortHandler) {
       options.abortHandler(() => {
         failed = true;
         reject(new Error('request aborted'));
         xhr.abort();
       });
     }
   });
 
   if (!failed) {
     xhr.send(formData);
   }
 
   return responsePromise;
 }
 
 export type UploadBlob = typeof uploadBlob;
 
 export { uploadBlob };