Sources: The Guardian
A court in Hanoi, Vietnam, sentences two Facebook users to lengthy jail sentences for "conducting propaganda against the state". One man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years of house arrest while another man was given a six-year prison term and three years of house arrest. 2021-12-15
Twitter and Facebook announce they are limiting the distribution of the article until it is fact-checked. 2020-10-14
American social media service Facebook announces it may block Australian users from sharing both local and international news stories on its platform, should the Australian government enact legislation that would require technology companies in the country to pay local news organisations. 2020-09-1
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 European Court of Justice decides an international agreement, generally known as a Safe Harbor rule, used by thousands of companies for moving people’s digital data between the European Union and the United States is invalid, effective immediately. The decision throws into doubt how global technology giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google can collect, manage, and analyze online information from their millions of users in the 28-member bloc. Decisions by this court, the highest legal authority in the EU, cannot be appealed. 2015-10-6
The social network Facebook files for an initial public offering. 2012-02-1
An Indonesian man is charged with blasphemy after saying that God does not exist on his Facebook page. 2012-01-20
Facebook inadvertently disabled some users' accounts when a system designed to detect fake accounts malfunctioned. The problem has since been resolved. 2010-11-17
The Pope encounters thousands of Facebook protesters after a seven-week online campaign against his views on contraception and HIV-AIDS. 2010-05-11
Social networking site Facebook closes down spontaneous support groups for a pilot who crashed his plane in Austin, United States. (Wikinews) 2010-02-19