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Facebook is a social networking service where users can communicate with one another and share personal information including photos, videos and links. A free registration is required to become a Facebook member, which allows users to join one or more networks of friends based around a company, region, interest or school.
Facebook was founded at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and several other Harvard computer science students. In October 2003, an inebriated Zuckerberg had written a predecessor service called "Facemash" which placed the photos of two Harvard students side by side so a user could select which person was more attractive. For that project, he hacked into the Harvard computer network and copied student dormitory ID images. The school administration quickly shut the service down and threatened to expel Zuckerberg, but did not do so. At the time, The Harvard Crimson newspaper wrote about the incident in the article Hot or Not? Website Briefly Judges Looks.
Facebook had $84.2 billion in 2020 advertising revenue. As of mid 2021 the company claims 2.8 billion monthly users, although that number is questionable because the company has acknowledged removing billions of fake accounts, including over 3 billion between October 2018 and March 2019.
On October 28, 2021, Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta Platforms, signaling its new focus on building 'the metaverse.' The term refers to an immmersive virtual world or three-dimensional internet experience which the company is spending billions of dollars trying to build.
Almost all Facebook users access the service using mobile phones. India and the United States have the largest numbers of Facebook users. The service has been banned in China since 2009 when it was blocked following riots by Uighurs in the city of Urumchi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in northwest China.
It is one of the worst American media outlets, according to Mondo Times members.
This website is owned by Meta Platforms, Inc.
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-- In a bid to draw younger users, Meta's Facebook service is changing its main feed to work more like competitor TikTok, promoting the most popular video content rather than posts from accounts users follow.
Akash Sriram and Katie Paul wrote at Reuters on July 21, 2022:
Meta's Facebook revamping main feed to attract younger users
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, July 25, 2022
-- It's not hard to find the KFC chicken recipe or the formula for Coca-Cola. Now we can also learn how and why Facebook goes about promoting and spreading "civic low quality news, civic misinfo, civic toxicity, health misinfo, and health antivax content," as described in Facebook research.
Jeremy B. Merrill and Will Oremus wrote at The Washington Post on October 26, 2021:
Five points for anger, one for a 'like': How Facebook's formula fostered rage and misinformation
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, November 9, 2021
-- Saying it's easier to provoke people's anger than other emotions, former Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen told 60 Minutes that Facebook endangers users in its quest to keep them scrolling. She said the company "over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety."
Scott Pelley reported at CBS News on October 4, 2021:
Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, October 4, 2021
-- Facebook massively promoted the propaganda of Eastern European troll farms as the 2020 U.S. election neared, according to an internal report by a senior Facebook data scientist. The service's most popular pages for Christian and Black American content were being run by the trolls and Facebook ignored newsfeed changes proposed to stop them.
Karen Hao wrote at MIT Technology Review on...
-- On a British tabloid video featuring Black men, Facebook asked viewers if they would like to "keep seeing videos about Primates." Facebook said its AI is "not perfect" without commenting on the qualities of the people who write the AI.
Ryan Mac wrote at The New York Times on September 4, 2021:
Facebook Apologizes After AI Puts 'Primates' Label on Video of Black Men
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