Sources: The Guardian
Facebook announces that it will ban ads that discourage people from getting vaccinations. 2020-10-13
Facebook and Twitter remove, on order of the Supreme Federal Court, numerous accounts that support Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for promoting fake news. The Brazilian Labour Party, a member of the ruling coalition, condemns Justice Alexandre de Moraes for issuing the order. 2020-07-24
Twitter says it has removed a network of more than 170,000 accounts it says were spreading pro-Communist Party of China propaganda on the social media platform, saying the Chinese-based network had links to earlier state-backed operations on Facebook and YouTube. More than a thousand Russia-based misinformation accounts are also removed. 2020-06-12
The suspension of Facebook remains in place until the riots end. 2018-03-11
A Cambodian opposition senator is sentenced to 7 years in prison for a post on Facebook. 2016-11-7
The French data protection authority and the independent watchdog CNIL cite Facebook for breaching privacy laws by the collection and transfer of 30 million users' Internet data, and by tracking non-users. Companies are no longer protected by the International Safe Harbor pact that was ruled illegal last October. 2016-02-8
The Guardian obtains a copy of a document from April that reveals that the NSA is mining data using PRISM, spying on the e-mails and web activities of American citizens through direct access to Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, Yahoo, Paltalk and AOL. The Guardian's report does not state from whom they obtained the document. 2013-06-6
Two men who set up a Facebook site to incite violence during the riots are sentenced to four years imprisonment at Chester Crown Court. 2011-08-16
Major websites, such as Google, Facebook, and others, participate in World IPv6 Day. 2011-06-8
An Israeli raid on the West Bank is aborted after a soldier posts the following secret details on Facebook: "On Wednesday we are cleaning Qatanna, and on Thursday, God willing, going home". 2010-03-3