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Facebook exposes a group of spy firms that could affect the private security of over 50,000 people.
2021-12-17

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

Facebook unblocks Australian news pages after the Australian government offers to make it exempt from their new News Media Bargaining Code if Facebook, Inc. can form enough private agreements to pay Australian news companies for their content.
2021-02-23

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

The Philippine Department of Justice probes the proliferation of sockpuppet Facebook accounts that have been using the identities of students and journalists involved in protests against the passage of an anti-terrorism bill.
2020-06-7

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze announces his resignation on Facebook.
2019-09-2

Facebook reports an error in privacy settings that has affected 14 million users.
2018-06-7

Facebook states that people running popular pages will now have to verify their identity as part of its continued efforts to stem fake news and propaganda.
2018-04-6

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey launches an investigation into alleged harvesting of Facebook profiles by Cambridge Analytica, a firm employed by Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign.
2018-03-17

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