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 is ditching its standalone Gaming app
The Facebook app logo.

It's not just you, our Facebook Feed is broken too (update: fixed)
Facebook




Meta is secretly testing a Twitch-like platform called Super
Meta's Super





A centuries-old secret society is hanging out in Facebook groups
Rosicrucianism

Take back your time and attention with digital minimalism
Illustration of woman in a bathing suit on a chaise floating on a delete button over a sea of apps

Report: Some hospitals are giving private data to Facebook
A Facebook dislike button

Meta gives up on Portal, report says
Meta Facebook Portal sitting on a side table beside a vase.

Meta gives up on building a camera-equipped smartwatch, report says
Meta


Mark Zuckerberg shares pixelated preview of Meta's upcoming VR headset
Project Cambria mixed-reality headset on Mark Zuckerberg

Instagram jumps on the NFT bandwagon as the wheels spin off
Woman reaches for an oversized, pixelated dollar bill.


Facebook is giving up on podcasts
Facebook

How to unlink Facebook and Instagram
Facebook activity as represented by a floating miasma of mobile phone notifications and a rocket flying past the user's face

Meta won't let people share private home information anymore
An illustration of a set of eyes peering through a screen, amongst the background of Facebook marketplace.

Inside the very regular world of the 'I wish I was Sh*tposting about music in a bunker' Facebook page
Screenshot of the Facebook page "I wish I was Shitposting about music in a bunker"


Meta insists it just chose a side in the encryption debate
Hands typing on a computer, showing an obscured password.

Facebook-hired firm promoted fake TikTok challenge to generate bad press
Facebook and TikTok on mobile phones
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