Sources: CNBC
A 15-year-old Hindu boy is killed by a Muslim mob inside a police station in Khulna, Bangladesh, after allegedly insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad on Facebook. 2024-09-5
Facebook announces that it will no longer grant blanket immunity to politicians who use its service, especially if their posts are deemed to be deceptive or abusive. The announcement comes as Facebook officially bans former U.S. President Donald Trump from the website until January 2023 after he posted a message which Facebook viewed as supportive of the 2021 United States Capitol attack. 2021-06-4
Facebook takes down the main page of the military of Myanmar a day after two protesters were killed. The social media site said that the account violated its policies of "incitement to violence and coordinating harm". Earlier, the military had blocked Internet access in many parts of the country. 2021-02-21
British-Dutch consumer company Unilever, owner of brands including Lipton and Dove, announces that they will suspend advertising on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter for the rest of the year, saying that they have not been doing enough to counter "divisiveness and hate speech during this polarized election period in the U.S." 2020-06-26
Pio Tikoduadua, a member of Fiji's National Federation Party, is arrested after he uploaded a video to Facebook denouncing police brutality. His party demands his immediate release. 2020-04-21
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
Social networking service Facebook, and its photo-sharing subsidiary Instagram, ban private, person-to-person sales of guns via their services. 2016-01-30
The small nation of Nauru temporarily bans Facebook, purportedly to protect young people. 2015-05-13
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