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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More than 150 tech companies urged a court to shut down Trump's latest travel ban
More than 150 tech companies urged a court to shut down Trump's latest travel ban

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Now you can order and pay for Subway in Facebook Messenger

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F8 makes it abundantly clear that Facebook has ambitions way beyond your social network
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Facebook's top VR researcher explains why augmented reality is the future
Facebook's top VR researcher explains why augmented reality is the future

Facebook's plan to tap into your brain is strange, scary ... and fantastic
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Facebook's new 360-degree cameras change the virtual reality game
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Facebook F8 Day 2: AR glasses, brain typing, skin listening, and more
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Facebook shows off its brain interface research and... wow
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Facebook wants to embrace great journalism — try telling that to their algorithms
Facebook wants to embrace great journalism — try telling that to their algorithms


What's missing from Facebook's vision of a VR future
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Facebook's first social VR app is cool -- but there's a problem
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Why Facebook's AR announcement should excite iPhone fans
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Facebook to developers: Help us destroy Snapchat
Facebook to developers: Help us destroy Snapchat

Everything you need to know about what Facebook announced at F8
Everything you need to know about what Facebook announced at F8

Your overbearing dad Mark Zuckerberg told some rough jokes at F8
Your overbearing dad Mark Zuckerberg told some rough jokes at F8
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