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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 introduces new regulations blocking American publishers with political ties from running ads masquerading as news articles in its news section.
2020-08-11

Facebook removes alleged Russia-based accounts and pages as a part of a crackdown on misuse of its service.
2019-01-17

Facebook agrees to disclose ads that ran in the U.S. in 2016 from accounts associated with a Russian entity known as the Internet Research Agency to United States Congressional investigators. Earlier, this information was provided to Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
2017-09-21

Facebook tells congressional investigators an operation, traced to a Russian company seeking to target voters, spent $100,000 on thousands of U.S. ads promoting divisive social and political messages during the 2016 U.S. election.
2017-09-6

A man in Plano, Texas, stabs his girlfriend and posts her dead body to Facebook; the social media website does not remove the photograph for 36 hours.
2016-06-1

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

A photo of New York City Counterterrorism Officer Lawrence DePrimo, 25, taken today by an Arizona woman and posted on the New York City Police Department's Facebook page, which shows him buying a (normally $100) pair of waterproof winter boots from Skechers for a homeless Times Square man on 42nd Street without any shoes, goes viral, with 1.6 million views and 275,000 likes.
2012-11-16

A new United States national strategy to prevent suicides is to be released by the Surgeon General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Army Secretary. It will include, among others, the use of social medium Facebook as a tactic.
2012-09-10

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