An econometric analysis found that Facebook’s app development platform added more than 182,000 jobs in the U.S. economy in 2011. They claimed that Facebook protected prominent figures from scrutiny instead of removing content that violates its rules and that the special treatment was financially driven. The suits also assert that in acquiring these products, they weakened their privacy measures for their users. Ankhi Das, Facebook’s policy director for India and South and Central Asia, apologized publicly in August 2020 for sharing a Facebook post which called Muslims in India a “degenerate community”. She is reported to have prevented action by Facebook against anti-Muslim content and supported the BJP in internal Facebook messages.

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• Facebook also allowed InfoWars videos that shared the Pizzagate conspiracy theory to survive, despite specific assertions that it would purge Pizzagate content.

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• DataSpii harvested data from millions of Chrome and Firefox users through compromised browser extensions.
• Facebook first played a role in the American political process in January 2008, shortly before the New Hampshire primary.

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• Third-party developers can integrate apps into Messenger, letting users enter an app while inside Messenger and optionally share details from the app into a chat.

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• PHP was used to create dynamic content and manage data on the server side of the Facebook application.

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• In recent years, Facebook’s News Feed algorithms have been identified as a cause of political polarization, for which it has been criticized.

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The new social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, connected hundreds of millions of people. By 2008, politicians and interest groups were experimenting with systematic use of social media to spread their message. ProPublica noted that their system enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics of “Jew hater”, “How to burn Jews”, or, “History of ‘why Jews ruin the world”. In a period of six months, October 2018 – March 2019, the social media website removed a total of 3.39 billion fake accounts. The number of fake accounts was reported to be more than 2.4 billion real people on the platform. In February 2020, Facebook encountered a major security breach in which its official Twitter account was hacked by a Saudi Arabia-based group called “OurMine”.

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• The company has also been unclear whether or not it is possible for a person to revoke Facebook’s access to their “shadow profile”.

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• Facebook investigations revealed that Archimedes had spent some $1.1 million ($1.35 million in 2024 dollars) on fake ads, paid for in Brazilian reais, Israeli shekels and US dollars.

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• Previously, Facebook had its privacy settings spread out over 20 pages, and has now put all of its privacy settings on one page, which makes it more difficult for third-party apps to access the user’s personal information.

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• Some of these activities have been done in violation of the platform policies, creating “coordinated inauthentic behavior”, support or attacks.

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• In a period of six months, October 2018 – March 2019, the social media website removed a total of 3.39 billion fake accounts.
• On January 11, 2018, Facebook announced that it would change News Feed to prioritize friends/family content and de-emphasize content from media companies.

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In July 2019, Facebook advanced its measures to counter deceptive political propaganda and other abuse of its services. The company removed more than 1,800 accounts and pages that were being operated from Russia, Thailand, Ukraine and Honduras. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it was announced that the internet regulatory committee would block access to Facebook. As a dominant social-web service with massive outreach, Facebook has been used by identified or unidentified political operatives to affect public opinion.

• Data is read from these log files using Ptail, an internally built tool to aggregate data from multiple Scribe stores.
• Facebook has used several initiatives to encourage its users to register to vote and vote.

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• Ankhi Das, Facebook’s policy director for India and South and Central Asia, apologized publicly in August 2020 for sharing a Facebook post which called Muslims in India a “degenerate community”.

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• Facebook has 60 days after the court’s December 22 ruling to decide to appeal the case to the Supreme Court of Canada.

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• In addition to publicly apologizing, Facebook has said that it will be reviewing and auditing thousands of apps that display “suspicious activities” in an effort to ensure that this breach of privacy does not happen again.

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• Facebook had surpassed MySpace in global traffic and became the world’s most popular social media platform.

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The patent covers News Feeds in which links are provided so that one user can participate in the activity of another user. The sorting and display of stories in a user’s News Feed is governed by the EdgeRank algorithm. PHP Bonisa was used to create dynamic content and manage data on the server side of the Facebook application. As Facebook grew in user base and functionality, the company encountered scalability and performance challenges with PHP.

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On May 13, 2015, Facebook in association with major news portals launched “Instant Articles” to provide news on the Facebook news feed without leaving the site. Each registered user on Facebook has a personal profile that shows their posts and content. In June 2009, Facebook introduced a “Usernames” feature, allowing users to choose a unique nickname used in the URL for their personal profile, for easier sharing. For example, they might go to the same sporting club, live in the same suburb, have the same breed of pet or share a hobby.

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In April 2021, The Guardian reported approximately half a billion users’ data had been stolen including birthdates and phone numbers. In September 2024, Meta paid a $101 million fine for storing up to 600 million passwords of Facebook and Instagram users in plain text. These facilities vary according to country, as some nations require the company to make data available (and limit access to services), while the European Union’s GDPR regulation mandates additional privacy protections. Third-party developers can integrate apps into Messenger, letting users enter an app while inside Messenger and optionally share details from the app into a chat. Businesses like respond.io, Twilio, and Manychat also used the APIs to develop chatbots and automation platforms for commercial use. On January 11, 2018, Facebook announced that it would change News Feed to prioritize friends/family content and de-emphasize content from media companies.