Facebook

Ah, Facebook. Everyone's heard of Facebook! Founded in 2004 by then-Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg as a way to rank fellow college students, Facebook would quickly become the largest social network on the planet and amass billions of users. The platform's popularity was bolstered by users looking to reconnect with old friends and connect with loved ones around the world. But, of course, that's not where the story ends and the rest, well, isn't so positive sounding for Facebook. The 2010 Hollywood drama, The Social Network, about Facebook's tumultuous early startup days, 2018's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, the company's ongoing role in spreading far-right extremism and conspiracy theories. Facebook, and its parent company Meta, remains a behemoth in the online space (even if the stigma is that it's mostly used by your parents and grandparents now). And who knows what its future holds with the Metaverse?

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Facebook and Instagram crack down on shady political ads
Facebook and Instagram crack down on shady political ads


Facebook rolls out GDPR privacy checkups worldwide
Facebook rolls out GDPR privacy checkups worldwide

Facebook’s desperate for people to take its fake news fight seriously
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Mark Zuckerberg testified before the EU Parliament, but the hearing's format left MEPs with no answers
Mark Zuckerberg testified before the EU Parliament, but the hearing's format left MEPs with no answers

Facebook finally stops screwing around with two-factor authentication
Facebook finally stops screwing around with two-factor authentication


Facebook goes after Yelp with its latest Marketplace update
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Houston police chief expresses hopelessness about gun control in emotional post
Houston police chief expresses hopelessness about gun control in emotional post




Facebook's adding new features to Stories to complete its Snapchat domination
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Facebook's new transparency report ignores its biggest problems
Facebook's new transparency report ignores its biggest problems

Russia stole these activists' causes — but they're not backing down
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WhatsApp just made group messaging more like Slack
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To win back teens, Facebook launched a website
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'People You May Know' is the perfect demonstration of everything that's wrong with Facebook
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Facebook is working on its own cryptocurrency
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