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Facebook announces it will ban Holocaust denial on its platform.
2020-10-12

Following the attack, which was livestreamed on Facebook, the social network teams up with the Metropolitan Police of London. Facebook is providing bodycams to the force's firearms officers to help train its artificial intelligence systems, enabling it to automatically detect and remove live first-person footage of violent incidents. The company says it previously had insufficient footage for its software to suitably match fresh footage with, and has been criticised for its role in the shooting. Instagram say they will also participate.
2019-09-17

Facebook reports an error in privacy settings that has affected 14 million users.
2018-06-7

The editor of "Citylife Chiang Mai" apologises to Chiang Mai's governor after being threatened with criminal charges for sharing on Facebook a painting by a student that depicted historic kings in anti-pollution masks.
2018-04-3

The U.S. Justice Department and the Director of National Intelligence reach a preliminary joint agreement, likely resolving a lawsuit with the major American Internet provider companies (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, and LinkedIn), about the information the companies can release to customers regarding requests by the intelligence agencies for information.
2014-01-27

The social networking giant Facebook announces that it was the target of sophisticated hackers, who through a then-unknown bug from Oracle's Java on an infected website, managed to infiltrate employees' laptops, and then the internal networks. There was no user data collected, but certain code and corporate e-mails could have been exfiltrated.
2013-02-15

Russian social network VK announces that it will postpone its planned initial public offering indefinitely, following the recent botched float of Facebook.
2012-05-29

The Securities Division of the government of Massachusetts subpoenas financial services firm Morgan Stanley (MS), in connection with an MS analyst's talks with institutional investors prior to the Facebook initial public offering.
2012-05-22

The social network Facebook holds an initial public offering and closes nearly flat at $38.23 a share.
2012-05-18

United States car maker General Motors files for an Initial Public Offering.
2010-08-18