Sources: The Guardian
Russia adds Meta Platforms, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, to its list of "terrorists and extremists" for tolerating Russophobia and allowing calls to violence against Russians. 2022-10-11
Facebook restricts the content posted by the Myanmar's Tatmadaw in order to stop the spread of "misinformation" in a wake of military coup. 2021-02-12
Facebook announces that it will remove misinformation related to COVID-19 vaccines as countries prepare to distribute them. 2020-12-3
The Solomon Islands Cabinet passes a ban on the use of social media platform Facebook in the country, citing public misuse of the platform, and a need for stricter cybercrime legislation and regulation. Communications Minister Peter Shannel Agovaka says the ban does not require parliament's approval, and will be enforced once operators "establish a firewall" to block Facebook. 2020-11-17
A court in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan, sentences university professor Junaid Hafeez to death for blasphemy – verbal and on Facebook. 2019-12-21
Facebook, Google, and Twitter executives have been asked to testify before the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee in October and the Senate Intelligence Committee on November 1, according to committee sources. 2017-09-27
Facebook, Inc. announces that its social media service now has 2 billion regular users, more than a quarter of the world's population. Twitter, by comparison, has 328 million users as of April 2017. 2017-06-27
The government shuts down social media at the request of the electoral commission which says it is a security matter. Many Ugandans access Twitter and Facebook via a Virtual private network (VPN) which masks a user's location. 2016-02-18
The Palestinian Authority arrests Walid Husayin for heresy, a charge carrying a potential life prison sentence, after he claims to be God and insults the Prophet Muhammad on Facebook and his blog. 2010-11-11
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority acting on orders from Lahore High court blocks access to Facebook in the country until May 31 due to a Facebook group encouraging drawings of the Prophet Mohammed on May 20, labeled as Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. 2010-05-19